I feel that the largest failing of most environmentalists is their
hostility to and ignorance of capitalism. This is simply the most
counter-productive view possible.
It seems we have all these critiques of capitalism, but no one can come
up with a better solution. And this is why the environmentalists are
eventually going to become authoritarian. Since they can't stand how
things actually work, and they can't come up with a reasonable
alternative that most people would adopt voluntarily, they are going to
have to use violence to change things.
Which of course means that most of their goals will never be fulfilled,
since violence will be met with violence, and the environmentalists
will be discredited. I'm always astonished by how many
environmentalists turn to authoritarian solutions by reflex. It just
makes no sense to me. The first thing authoritarian governments do is
to eliminate challanges to the government. As world history has shown,
it really makes no difference what ideology authoritarian movements
have before the achieve power, they are all pretty much the same
afterwards.
We cannot trade our freedom for environmental protection. Not because
such a bargain might not be worth it, but because it will never work.
We can have freedom and environmental protection, but the minute we
surrender our freedom for some other goal we find the we have lost both.
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Darryl
Think Galactically -- Act Terrestrially
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