Gored to Death
25 June 2007
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Bravo for Emily Yoffe's sensible skepticism of the fervid environmental creed preached by the likes of Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio ("Gloom and Doom in a Sunny Day," June 25). In pouring their obloquy on industrial society - a society unmatched in its achievement of extending life spans and enriching lives - politician Gore and actor DiCaprio remind me of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, as described by historian Will Durant, "found it pleasant to give his imagination free rein, unhampered by experience."*
May we be saved from such saviors.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
* Will and Ariel Durant, Rousseau and Revolution (1967), pp. 178-179.
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Bravo for Emily Yoffe's sensible skepticism of the fervid environmental creed preached by the likes of Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio ("Gloom and Doom in a Sunny Day," June 25). In pouring their obloquy on industrial society - a society unmatched in its achievement of extending life spans and enriching lives - politician Gore and actor DiCaprio remind me of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, as described by historian Will Durant, "found it pleasant to give his imagination free rein, unhampered by experience."*
May we be saved from such saviors.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
* Will and Ariel Durant, Rousseau and Revolution (1967), pp. 178-179.
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