From: markbr@radian.UUCP (markbr)
Newsgroups: alt.individualism
Subject: Re: Lecture:  Refutation of Environmentalism
Summary: What do you expect from an economist?
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:05:14 GMT
Distribution: austin
Organization: Radian Corp. Austin, TX

In article <69967@ut-emx.uucp>, amck@emx.utexas.edu (Alan McKendree) writes:
# What is the environmentalism movement?  What arguments must one accept
# in order to accept the conclusions of environmentalism?  What scientific
# basis is there for its claims?
# 
# Hear for the first time the case _against_ environmentalism.
# 
#                   Topic:  The Toxicity of Environmentalism

Right. The environment is toxic, and dangerous to our health.

# 
#                   Date:  Wednesday, April 15, 7:00 p. m.
# 
# 		  Place:  Batts Hall Auditorium, U.T. campus
# 			  (just southeast of the main tower)
# 		  
# 		  Speaker:  Dr. George Reisman
# 			    Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University
# 
# Dr. Reisman will not merely challenge the scientific claims of
# environmentalism; he will challenge its moral and philosophical base:
# the idea that nature has intrinsic value apart from and against man.

I see: nothing that someone can't make money on is worth anything.
# 
# Dr. Reisman will demonstrate that the inherent nature of production and
# economic activity is to improve _man's_ environment.  He will defend

Please address the strip mining of Appalachia, which tore up the land,
and left the residents with *nothing* when they left.

# science, technology and capitalism against the reactionary "greens" who
# wish to return to the pre-industrial era--even to the stone age.
# 
# If you are uncomfortable with arguments that "everybody knows" the
# environment is in trouble; that living standards must inevitably decline
# if we are to "save the planet"; that we must "take charge" (beginning
# with kindergarten students) to "rescue spaceship Earth", you need to hear
# this lecture.  If you believe these arguments, you need to hear it even
# more.
# 
# For more information contact:
# Dan Fordyce, 512-280-8450 or
# Alan McKendree 512-338-3464  ai.amck@mcc.com

But what can you expect from an economist? At least weathermen (gen) admit
it's raining when they look outside; astrologers rush to correct their
predictions the very first chance they have after their last prediction
was wrong, but economists wouldn't admit for six months that a recession
had started (Aug 90 - Jan 91), and then they've been claiming we're about
to start a recovery every month or two since, even when the unemployment
stats are going up, and GM is laying off thousands. They wouldn't know 
hard science if it bit them on the nose.


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Etymology, n.:
	Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that
were hard for the public to believe.  The term "etymology" was formed
from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy"
("study of").  It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."
		-- Mike Kellen