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Environmentalism is the banging shithouse door that the socialists are finally going to find themselves able to barge through and screw us all.
-Anonymous

January 1st, 2005 |

10 comments to Samizdata quote of the day

  • Harry Payne
    January 1, 2005 at 5:06 pm

    As I often remark – sometimes remark – remarked once after noting that a hymn was attributed to “Anon”: “And now we know why”.

    Happy 2005 everyone. Illigitimi non carborundum.

  • Johnathan Pearce
    January 2, 2005 at 11:46 am

    Er, I think you could probably find a more upmarket quote for the day than that, Jackie.

  • Paul
    January 2, 2005 at 2:55 pm

    Ha! That is brilliant!

  • Michael F
    January 2, 2005 at 6:56 pm

    Hope you will die of lung cancer. I’m sure you’ll find a reason why it’s the fault of you somehow strange concept of environmentalists/communists/EU/france/whatever.
    tsss.

  • Rob Read
    January 2, 2005 at 8:12 pm

    I find the coincidence between the beleif that an unmotivated beurocrat can effect more positive outcomes in the choatic feedback of economic freedom (coerced collectivism i.e. socialism) and regulation effecting positive outcomes in the chaotic feedback of our atmosphere (i.e. environmentalism) .

    Both are wrong. Both will kill. Both are based on the fallacy of the better beurocrat.

  • ernest young
    January 3, 2005 at 12:04 am

    I see the old tradition of letting the pre-teens stay up late at holiday time, still lingers on… looks as though they have been at Grandmas sherry as well…

  • Gary Gunnels
    January 3, 2005 at 5:30 am

    You got something against free market environmentalism?

  • Andrew Ian Dodge
    January 3, 2005 at 3:58 pm

    Yes, the affects of the previous night’s activities do not seem to have dissipated by the time this quote was posted.

  • HelenW
    January 4, 2005 at 12:32 am

    Imbecilic, but instructive. Although the structure of your quote is hopeless, it does show the difference between Conservatives and Libertarians.

    In the US, for example, the systematic implementation of sewage treatment has been a scientific, cultural, and environmental triumph. Only a Libertarian would rather crap his pants.

    ((That’s how you write a metaphor.))

  • the obvious
    January 4, 2005 at 5:33 pm

    if the predictions of some of the more hysterial environmentalists are correct and the world does end up more or less inhabitable then we won’t be around to discuss whether the economy should be free-market-orientated or a planned-economy in any case. So, it doesn’t make much sense to ignore their concerns or ideology. if there are too hysterical and overblown, the way to deal with them is to look at the scientific case as to whether there is global warming, danger of resources being exhausted etc….

    to be less glib, i don’t see environmentalism as particularly left-wing. after all, the environmentalist movements in the Eastern block emerged to criticise the horrendous environmental disasters that economic planners had created over there.

    also, the base of support of green movements tends to be affluent, educated middle-class people. the base of the left tends to be low-to-middle income workers [albeit with some left-wing intellectuals]. the greens, with their plans for closing down factories and for cutting back on the consumption [when the poor have little to consume as it is] are not going to appeal to the average left-wing voter

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