French President Francois Hollande has called for "eradication" of the world's tax havens and told French banks they must declare all of their subsidiaries.
Due to these issues and their potentially catastrophic consequences, scientists, environmental activists, educators, etc. have called for eradication of GM crops altogether.
This typically results in the emergence of complex conflicts of interest, with some stakeholders calling for eradication or control of the invaders, while others promote their continued use (Shaanker et al. 2010; Kannan et al. 2014; Shackleton et al. 2014; van Wilgen and Richardson 2014).
Thus, contexts that appear to call for eradication may instead demand managed coexistence of natives with nonnatives, and yet applied biologists have not generally considered the need to manage the eco-evolutionary dynamics that commonly result from interactions of natives with nonnatives.
In 1988, when polio was endemic in more than 125 countries affecting about 1000 children each day, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched after a World Health Assembly resolution called for the eradication of polio by the year 2000 [ 2, 3].
Last year, challenging global health orthodoxy, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the eradication of malaria.
It's what the Jubilee Debt Campaign referred back to when it called for the eradication of developing-world debt.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, eager to demonstrate their scorn for the companies, have called for their eradication.
Certainly none of us have called for the "eradication" of Israel (David Hirsh's repeated attribution to us of "hostility to Israel" on the Engage website on Tuesday is equally wide of the mark).
Like Gaffney, he has touted the conspiracy theory that the American government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and called for the eradication of all mosques in the US.
Most pressing of all, he called for the eradication of the Federal Reserve, the rejection of paper money, and a return to the gold standard — in his view, most economic threats can be traced, often directly, to the government's insistence on devaluing the currency by creating more of it.
