Wealth redistribution: Stealing money you worked hard to earn and giving it to someone who didn’t.

Environmentalism sprung from the early 20^th century progressive movement. The same people who gave us the minimum wage, Jim Crow and family “planning”. See here.

Progressivism was designed to put the screws to those deemed a threat. First it was the low wage tolerant immigrant who would take work and prosperity away from WASPs. Minimum wage was to take care of that problem. Jim Crow specifically targeted the black man.. Parallel to this was family planning as espoused by Margret Sanger. Those whom we call challenged today were considered a drain on society. Abortion and sterilization were cures to that societal malady.

Out of this evolved the environmental movement where man in general was the bad guy. Man, the earth’s parasite according to David Attenborough.

Walter Williams reminds us here of the “settled” science of global warming where not so long ago the great fear was the coming ice age. Read the rest of this entry »