First it was that we had an oil addiction, then it was that we shouldn’t drill for natural gas because it might hurt the environment, then it was no nuclear power because of the accident in Japan, now it is (according to a story I heard on NPR today) that we have a coal addiction. Would environmentalists be happy if there were no electricity, no cars, no factories, and no civilization or would they find something else to condemn?
Update (thanks to JH): “Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.” — Maurice Strong quoted in the September 1, 1997 edition of National Review magazine. (Secretary General of the 1992 U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, the Rio Earth Summit).
