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March 12, 2005
Some Environmentalists Do Have Second Thoughts
Dave LeBoeuf at Logical Meme highlights Nicholas Kristoff's column on the danger of environmentalists having second thoughts:
Liberal NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof actually acknowledges that environmentalists too often discredit themselves with incessant alarmism fueled (no pun intended) by bad science:
When environmentalists are writing tracts like "The Death of Environmentalism," you know the movement is in deep trouble. [...]
The fundamental problem, as I see it, is that environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
Kristof, ever the Bush basher, of course characterizes conservatives as un-nuanced in all matters, the environment being no exception. And yet Kristof himself appears to be discovering some of the 'nuances' of conservatives' approach to environmental concerns: if it's based on solid science, then it's a real phenomenon.
The influence of pseudoscience is at an epidemic level in this country--it's fueled by several generation’s worth of "progressive" education ideas that denigrate the validity of empirical evidence. It is truly amazing that people to whom the edict "question authority" is a mantra, and who would never believe a single word that comes out of Don Rumsfeld's mouth, would also swallow any new regulation by the EPA as gospel truth.
I discovered Logical Meme a couple of weeks ago. I think it's outstanding--consistently so.
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