Dark Ages: Earth Hour Here, Earth Decade N. Korea
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Dear Mr. Roberts, President of World Wildlife Fund:
You and members of your organization worry that industrialization and economic growth are harming the earth’s environment. I worry that the intensifying hysteria about the state of the environment - and that the resulting hostility to economic growth - might harm humankind’s prospects for comfortable, healthy, enjoyable, and long lives.
So I commend you on your “Earth Hour” effort. Persuading people across the globe to turn off lights for one hour supplies the perfect symbol for modern environmentalism: a collective effort to return humankind to the Dark Ages.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux, Chairman, Department of Economics, George Mason University
P.S. The WWF should award some special prize to the North Korean government, for that government keeps North Koreans not in any meager “Earth Hour,” or even “Earth Day,” but in what WWFers might call “Earth Decades.” See picture above of a society keeping its carbon footprint tiny. Of course, in doing so it keeps itself also desperately poor, often even to the point of starvation.
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