Today is Earth Day. It's also Lenin's birthday. I don't observe either, for the same reason: people are more important than ideology.
It is unfortunate that the modern environmentalist movement has embraced the methods of Lenin, which brought about the deaths of millions and the political subjugation of millions more. Let's be clear: those negative things were not the goals of Lenin, they were the inevitable by-products of centralized decision-making. Whenever leaders try to dictate from afar how we should live, rights are trampled and people die.
There is no danger that we will destroy the biosphere with greenhouse gas emissions. Humanity will survive climate change more easily in the future than it has in the past. We should support measures that increase freedom and oppose proposals to decrease it.
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