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= Paul Driessen = Paul Driessen (born January 21, 1948) is an American author and senior policy advisor for the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise as well as for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization founded in 1985 that supports free-market solutions to environmental issues.

Driessen received his B.A. in geology and field ecology from Lawrence, his J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law, and Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). His past employments include the United States Senate, Department of the Interior, and an energy trade association.

As stated by Driessen in his biography on his official website Ecoimperialism.com, he was a former member of the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth, but he later abandoned both groups. According to Driessen, his cause for leaving was that he “recognized that the environmental movement had become intolerant in its views, inflexible in its demands...and insensitive to the needs of billions of people who lack the food, electricity, safe water, healthcare and other basic necessities that we take for granted.

Driessen is also known for authoring Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, which argues that Western nations force environmentalist views upon developing nations, thereby contributing to poverty and death of millions of people in those countries. He is also the co-author of Cracking Big Green: To Save the World from the Save-the-Earth Money Machine which was published in April 2018. The book “explores how donors manipulate eco-ideology, attack selected industries and influence government regulations by supporting agreeable experts as advisors to powerful agencies.”