October 7, 2015

Revisiting Robert Nisbet on Environmentalism

(Steven Hayward) Since I'm in a mood to beat down on environmentalists today, I decided to dust off the late Robert Nisbet's charming 1982 book, Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary. The book was a direct emulation of Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, and the entry on environmentalism is not to be missed. Samples include: It is entirely possible that when the history of the 20th century is finally written, the single most important social movement

Source: Power Line