Environmentalism: Socialism by Other Means

When I was in college during the 1970's, a member of my YAF group wrote a prescient article for our newsletter. It was about the new fad of environmentalism, then in its embyronic stages. He wrote that, just as the issue of Civil Rights had been used as a sledgehammer against capitalistic society, so would envirnomentalism. He saw environmentalism as an elaborate ruse by which the government would enact more stringent controls over our society and freedom.

I don't even remember the writer's name, but if I did I would call him up and praise him. He was absolutely right. Czech President Vaclav Klaus described it well when he said: "The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism." Charles Krauthammer, writing in the Washinton Post, says:

Predictions of catastrophe depend on models. Models depend on assumptions
about complex planetary systems -- from ocean currents to cloud formation --
that no one fully understands. Which is why the models are inherently flawed
and forever changing. The doomsday scenarios posit a cascade of events, each
with a certain probability. The multiple improbability of their simultaneous
occurrence renders all such predictions entirely speculative.

Yet on the basis of this speculation, environmental activists, attended by
compliant scientists and opportunistic politicians, are advocating radical
economic and social regulation. "The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the
market economy and prosperity," warns Czech President Vaclav Klaus, "is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism." Read it all here.

Green is the new Red. Don't be deceived by it.

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