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Eco-imperialism is a term coined by Paul Driessen to refer to the forceful imposition of Western environmentalist views on developing countries. The degree to which this occurs is a topic of debate, as is whether such imposition would be ethically justifiable.
In this book, Paul Driessen argues that like the European imperialists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, today's eco-imperialists keep developing countries destitute for the benefit of the developed world.
By advocating for the precautionary principle, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, Driessen claims, environmental groups legitimize their demands on government but often engender poverty and death in the process. Driessen also asserts that environmentalists' demands can sometimes cause environmental degradation.

"Third and most important, for Northern Hemisphere NGOs and policy makers to tell
Third World nations that they must rely on wind and solar power – and forego hydroelectric or
fossil fuel projects – is to deprive the world’s poorest citizens of reliable, affordable energy. It
condemns billions of people to continued poverty and misery. And it does so for no valid reason
– but only to promote the ideologies of vocal activists whose indifference to this abject poverty
will eventually prove their undoing."

Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is a senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs.

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