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So Much for 'Free-Market Environmentalism'

By Lew Rockwell / The LRC Blog
I remember when all the usual suspects in the DC libertarian world heralded Bjorn Lomborg and his book The Skeptical Environmentalist because he was a moderate, and not a hardcore type. One must, to be respectable in the Beltway, accept all the idiot and even anti-human notions of environmentalism, then seek to achieve them by semi-market methods. Now, being an enviro-skeptic does not mean disliking the birds and the bees, nor the outdoors. Hunting, fishing, birdwatching, hiking, etc. are all great human pastimes. But the enviro-skeptic sees mankind as the central fact of nature, with everything to be judged in relation to people.
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Posted by Editor at September 2, 2010 03:29 AM