Unhappy Earth Day
The environmentalist crusade to restrict industrial development is one of today’s worst threats to economic freedom and human well-being. It is a threat both existentially, in terms of the policies the greens advocate (e.g., restricting the production and use of fossil fuels), and intellectually, in terms of the countless confusions they have injected into the debate.
In this video, recorded last Earth Day, my colleague Keith Lockitch and former colleague Alex Epstein (now head of the Center for Industrial Progress) unearth the vicious ideology behind Earth Day, and explain why we should celebrate, not untouched wilderness, but our ability to transform nature in support of human life under capitalism.
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The ultimate ideal is a world where mankind has been erased out of existence, is there anything more transparently anti-life?
Of course, environmentalists have the right of free speech, like anybody. The intellectual confusions in connection with their speech isn’t their fault even if they’re trying to cause them. They succeed only by others’ lack of prevention of confusion. They even have the right to advocate the policies they advocate. But, since those policies are meant to be put in the form of laws and implemented in the form of governmental enforcement, specific plans and actions are crimes and anybody carrying them out, in any capacity, are criminals, because they are initiatory force. To avoid becomming criminals, legislative leaders must immediately throw out such proposals whenever introduced. They are criminal, just like advocacy plus plans of armed robbery or murder. Those who introduce them are as close to being criminals as possible, without actually being criminals.