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March 21, 2014

What is our carbon footprint, asks Bruckner, but “the gaseous equivalent of Original Sin”?

The germ of tyranny lies in religious ecologism.
Bruckner reminds us that political absolutism and ideological fanaticism are seldom more than a few steps apart. Given the extent to which energy use is now implicated in the details of our lives, the potential for green activism to devolve into dictatorship is nearly limitless. The great lesson of the twentieth century, Bruckner recalls, is that, "€œin the wrong hands, the best of causes can degenerate into an abomination."Ecologism: The Campus Cult of Victimhood

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 21, 2014 9:22 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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