Once upon a time, there was a group of environmentalists who, never thinking that it would apply to them, decided to destroy civilisation and reduce their fellow men to serfdom. Their leader, Lord Summerisle, said...On the other hand, when the BBC stops being a collection of true believers, then you're in real trouble.
Update: Instapundit has a post on Columbus that includes an interesting quote about environmentalists and other self-appointed elites:
This is primarily an effect of the Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism. Just as Calvinists believed in the centrality of the depravity of man, with the exception of a minuscule contingent of the Elect of God, their secularized descendants believe in the depravity and cursedness of Western civilization, with their own enlightened selves in the role of the Elect.
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