Thursday, March 26, 2009

Poverty is the Answer: Radical Environmentalism Leading Us to a New Form of Human Sacrifice

"The environmental benefits of economic decline, though real, are fragile, because they are vulnerable to intervention by governments, which, understandably, want to put people back to work and get them buying non-necessities again--through programs intended to revive ordinary consumer spending (which has a big carbon footprint), and through public-investment projects to build new roads and airports (ditto)."