Environmentalism and its hidden agenda
The
Mises Institute is putting out some wonderful stuff these days.
This is an
article about a ten-year old essay that was prescient:
The Toxicity of Environmentalism
The author opens with this comment and then posts the essay:
The environmentalist fear mongers are gearing up for a new propaganda blitz, based on an alleged connection between the two recent major hurricanes and alleged global warming. They apparently believe that modern education and cultural reconditioning have been at work long enough for most Americans by now to have adopted the mentality of primitive tribal villagers, who can be frightened into sacrificing their sheep and goats (substitute SUVs and air conditioners) to avoid the wrath of nature.
In the hope that a sufficient portion of the American population still possesses enough rationality and self-respect to reject this intellectual outrage with the anger and contempt it deserves, and in the hope of encouraging them to do so, we present George Reisman’s 1990 essay "The Toxicity of Environmentalism."
This is an essay, as topical today as when it was first written, which lays bare the hidden agenda of the movement and skewers its every aspect, especially the notion that global warming, real or imagined, is an excuse for collectivist control of the economic system.
The essay is very well written and defies excerpting. If you are at all interested, go and read -- takes about ten minutes and very interesting...
Posted by DaveH at October 4, 2005 2:08 PM