Journal of Libertarian Studies

Some Comments on the Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement

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The following essay attempts to touch on one aspect of modern environmentalism and to examine it against the backdrop of the values associated with a truly liberal society. What I hope to do is to explore certain traits common to the rhetoric of the environmental movement that I find particularly inimical to rational discourse and that serve only to support untenable and fallacious conclusions and recommendations that, if accepted, would prove devastating to civilization.

Volume 12, Number 1 (1996)

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Hamowy, Ronald. “Some Comments on the Rhetoric of the Environmental Movement.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, No. 1 (1996): 161–177.

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