I would like to modestly propose that it is time for conservatives to
combat the most economically dangerous and statist movement in the
world today, and it is not socialism. It is the modern-day green
movement, which is not run by people who primarily want to keep the air
we breathe and the water we drink clean, or safeguard endangered species
like tigers and bald eagles, or prevent urban blight—every sane person
is for those things. Its guiding principle is instead to impede economic
growth, material progress, and capitalism.
As the saying goes, green is the new red. The environmental movement has been hijacked by those who worship the created and not the creator. They regard industrialization as retrograde, resource extraction as evil, and human beings as net destroyers of the planet. I remember several years ago reading an article by a prominent environmentalist who said Earth’s greatest problem is that mankind has no natural predator. In other words, it is a global curse that human beings sit atop the food chain.
http://spectator.org/articles/58755/greens-are-reds
As the saying goes, green is the new red. The environmental movement has been hijacked by those who worship the created and not the creator. They regard industrialization as retrograde, resource extraction as evil, and human beings as net destroyers of the planet. I remember several years ago reading an article by a prominent environmentalist who said Earth’s greatest problem is that mankind has no natural predator. In other words, it is a global curse that human beings sit atop the food chain.
http://spectator.org/articles/58755/greens-are-reds
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