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Flat White

“Why do you hate the environment?”

17 April 2018

4:26 PM

17 April 2018

4:26 PM

Whenever I object to the government banning plastic bags or tripling my electricity bill, I’m always asked, ‘Why do you hate the environment?’ The truth is: I don’t. What I do hate is environmentalism. I hate its eco-austerity, its quasi-religious demands for penance and its anti-human rejection of progress. I love the environment, its eco-diversity, clean air and its beauty.

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