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January 4, 2012
Crankery, in short, became respectable.
Neither the failure of the environmental apocalypse to arrivenor the steady improvement in environmental conditions over the last 40 years has dampened the ardor of those eager to make hair shirts for others to wear. The call for political coercion as a path back to Ruskin’s and Mishan’s small-is-beautiful world is still with us.... True to its late-1960s origins, political environmentalism in America gravitates toward both bureaucrats and hippies: toward a global, big-brother government that will keep the middle classes in line and toward a back-to-the-earth, peasantlike localism, imposed on others but presenting no threat to the elites’ comfortable lives. -- Progressives Against Progress by Fred Siegel, City Journal Summer 2010
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 4, 2012 10:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.