America IS the principle of individual rights. When that principle is no longer taught, understood or acted upon, there is no more America. We are fortunate enough to live in the US at the beginning of the 21st century and enjoy all the benefits of modern science and technology.
Human life is now longer, healthier and richer than ever before.
But not everybody is happy about it. Some people would rather have us go back in time and sacrifice it all. They are the advocates of Environmentalism. Environmentalism is not, as many naively think, a movement to protect the environment for man. It is rather a movement to protect the environment from man.