Young, Dumb, and Scared: Big Green and the Existential Protection Racket
Environmentalism has become a bit of an extortion racket and its biggest shareholders are Big Media and Big Law/Government. The oligopoly of Big Oil would not need to advertise but for the bad publicity it would receive if it didn’t advertise. The most ingenius aspects of the environmental movement is that it wears the mantle of a benign and noble cause and that in turn attracts a surfeit of true believing free labor that mans the protest pickets, fills the voting booths, and stacks the juries. Environmentalism has yielded some benefits such as clean air and water, and low levels of litter. On the down side, enviromentalism almost destroyed us with the Global Warming Hoax and may yet destroy us with the Cap and Trade Bill and EPA gangsterism.
