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	Podcast:		Liberty Law Talk
	Episode:		The Pathetic Record of Environmentalist Pessimism
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:49:23
	Publish Date:		2014-08-25 13:39:11
	Description:		This conversation with Patrick Allitt on his latest book, A Climate of Crisis, provides a historical judgment on the environmentalist movement in postwar America. We see its causes, self-understanding, and the motives and beliefs driving its adherents. Allitt, unlike most in this area, does not come to propose or critique policies, but to note the benefits and consequences that have resulted from the particular brand of environmentalism that emerged in America. Curiously, Allitt notes, environmentalism received its initial energy from the immense capacity for wealth creation that America generated in the postwar environment. This freed us to notice the damage… Read More
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