Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them 4
Speaker: Steven J. Milloy
Host: Becky Norton Dunlop, Vice President, External Relations, The Heritage Foundation
Behind the smiley-face rhetoric of “sustainability” and “conservation” – that warm and fuzzy public image that the environmental movement has cultivated for itself – resides a dark agenda. In Green Hell, Steve Milloy examines how the Greens aim to regulate your behavior, downsize your lifestyle, and invade the most intimate aspects of your personal life. He reflects on the authoritarian impulse underlying the Green crusade. Whether they’re demanding that you turn down your thermostat, stop driving your car, or engage in some other senseless act of self-denial, he argues that the Greens are envisioning a grim future for you marked by endless privation.
With apocalyptic predictions of environmental doom, the Green movement has gained influence throughout American society – from schools and local planning boards to the biggest corporations in the country. And their plans are much more ambitious than you think, says Milloy. What the Greens really seek, with increasing success, is to dictate the very parameters of your daily life – where you can live, what transportation you can use, what you can eat, and even how many children you can have.
Steven J. Milloy is Founder and Publisher of JunkScience.com, a columnist for FoxNews.com, the Co-Founder of the Free Enterprise Action Fund, an Adjunct Scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Co-Director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research. An outspoken defender of the free market against the junk science and false claims disseminated by the Greens, his columns and op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Financial Times, and Los Angeles Times.
Location: The Heritage Foundation’s Lehrman Auditorium
Every thing in the above statement is absurd.
Has anyone not noticed that conservatives have gone absolutely bonkers? What a dim view of the world.
In the early 20th century eugenics made sense. Many believed it. It was scientific. But only authoritarian control could bring it about. It gave rise to the totalitarian dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini. Perhaps now we are witnessing the rise of 21st century totalitarianism. Because only complete authoritarian control will bring about all the policies environmentalists call for. It starts out rational and positive. But it will end badly….
This guy is ridiculous! I believe what ‘greens’ want is for people to realize that if we continue to live in an excessive, wasteful, irresponsible way, we will eventually cause so much damage to the planet that we will not be able to repair it. Sure it takes a change in lifestyle, and sure it is not easy, but sticking your head in the sand, and denying scientific fact, does not negate the truth. We need to make changes while we still can make a difference. Steven Milloy is poisoning the intellectual environmental with the same dissregard polluters have shown for years toward our actual environment.
I’m confused. I don’t know who to believe. But to me it just seems scary, these programs Obama is putting in place and how to pay for them. All the news channels are biased in one way or another. I would just like to get ahold of some information about global warming, the best way to handle it and so forth. I also can’t believe that our so-called lawmakers in congresvote on bills they haven’t even read.