‘Progressives Against Progress’: ‘Rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals historical optimism’ — ‘Extraordinary reversal’ on 1970 Earth Day — Now ‘eager to make hair shirts for others to wear’
'It was only by rolling in mud of primitive practices that modern man could remove the stain of sinful science and materialism...Politicized science played on liberal fears of progress: for Gore & UN, only a global command-&-control economy that kept growth in check could stave off imminent catastrophe'