Environmentalism: RIP
The editors of National Review Online accurately sum up the characteristics of environmentalism:
Exaggeration and alarmism have been a chronic weakness of environmentalism since it became an organized movement in the 1960s. Every ecological problem was instantly transformed into a potential world-ending crisis, from the population bomb to the imminent resource depletion of the ‘limits to growth’ fad of the 1970s to acid rain to ozone depletion, always with an overlay of moral condemnation of anyone who dissented from environmental correctness. With global warming, the environmental movement thought it had hit the jackpot – a crisis sufficiently long-range that it could not be falsified and broad enough to justify massive political controls on resource use at a global level.
Let us hope that their conclusion proves to be true:
With the collapse of the Kyoto-Copenhagen process and the likely rejection of cap-and-trade in Congress, climate mania may have run its course.
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