Question Earthority!

“Last November, several state-wide environmental initiatives — most notably California’s $12 billion ‘Big Green’ and a $2 billion New York bond issue for land acquisition, dump closures, and recycling subsidies — failed to pass. Big Green was defeated by a 2-to-1 margin. The then-emerging economic recession has been given most of the credit, or blame, for these outcomes, but there is more to it than that. The general public is, at long last, beginning to take a more cautious, critical attitude toward the claims of the environmental establishment.” (written 06/91; posted 03/29/07)