“Swedes trash myth of refuse recycling“.
Yeah, right. Next you’ll be telling me that the New York Times once ran an editorial titled “Recycling is Garbage“.
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It sometimes seems that for many, environmentalism, and the rituals that go with it, such as an obsession with recycling, have become a replacement for religion. It reminds me of this story told by Jay Nordlinger:
In his article for the forthcoming NR on the Jo-burg jamboree, Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute tells a story about Julian Simon, the late and great economist.
He was at some environmental forum, and he said,
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