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April 10, 2012

"When people ask me, why are environmentalists so wedded to unending apocalyptic visions?"

"Because, I explain as simply and directly as I can, it makes them happy."
These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we have the presumption to refuse to listen to them. Catastrophe is not their fear but their joy. It is a short distance from lucidity to bitterness, from prediction to anathema. --Pascal’s Wager for Today | Power Line

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 10, 2012 11:22 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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