The following essay attempts to touch on one aspect of modern environmentalism and to examine it against the backdrop of the values associated with a truly liberal society. What I hope to do is to explore certain traits common to the rhetoric of the environmental movement that I find particularly inimical to rational discourse and that serve only to support untenable and fallacious conclusions and recommendations that, if accepted, would prove devastating to civilization.
Some Comments on the Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement
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Hamowy, Ronald. “Some Comments on the Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, No. 1 (1996): 161–177.