President of Czech Republic on Enviromentalism

Filed under:Our Money,Science,Technology — posted by Q Ball on 6/21/2007 @ 10:46 pm

From the Financial Times:

The environmentalists ask for immediate political action because they do not believe in the long-term positive impact of economic growth and ignore both the technological progress that future generations will undoubtedly enjoy, and the proven fact that the higher the wealth of society, the higher is the quality of the environment. They are Malthusian pessimists.

This is one of the most eloquent statements I have heard regarding the “threat” of global warming.