Bitter Fruit
If there was a season for the cherry picking of facts, the official opening would be this weekend on April 22nd as Earth Day festivities get under way.
As for the week-end weather forecast . . .
Look for gusty conditions as hot air from politicians mixes with long-winded speeches from publicity-seeking activists.
There will be increased precipitation in the form of leaflets and other propaganda raining down on rally attendees and a high-pressure system of rhetoric will serve as a backdrop for the resulting media coverage.
And everyone will assert that it is in the name of a “good cause.”
What will be absent from much of the debate is a discussion of the darker philosophy that is behind the movement to use global warming as an excuse to limit progress.
In an op-ed entitled On Earth Day, Remember: If Environmentalism Succeeds, It Will Make Human Life Impossible, Ayn Rand Institute board member Michael Berliner argues the real danger we face is from the ideas that serve as the basis for much of the environmental agenda.
Now, that’s food for thought.
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