Enviro-Tyrants

Shortly after Margaret Thatcher retired from office, I went to go hear her speak on the topic of what trends would take place over the next 10 or 20 years. Her prediction: an attempt by the left to undermine the legitimacy of the nation-state under the aegis of global regulation theoretically necessitated by environmental crisis.

Here is an excerpt from George Will's latest column, on the subject of government activism concerning polar bears and the larger global environmental political movement:

"What Friedrich Hayek called the "fatal conceit" -- the idea that government can know the future's possibilities and can and should control the future's unfolding -- is the left's agenda. The left exists to enlarge the state's supervision of life, narrowing individual choices in the name of collective goods. Hence the left's hostility to markets. And to automobiles -- people going wherever they want whenever they want.

Today's "green left" is the old "red left" revised. "

Baroness Maggie - right again. Let's clean up our air so we can breathe, let's get off our dependence on oil, but let's not live under enviro-tyranny.