Sunday, March 30, 2008

"Earth Hour" Insanity

Over on Samizdata.net, Thaddeus Tremayne has an excellent piece about last night's "Earth Hour" insanity, The dying of the light. Here's an excerpt:
With each passing day I become more convinced that the 'green' movement is actually a millenarian psychosis; a mental and spiritual sickness borne, perhaps, from some degree of civilisational exhaustion. Not just a belief that the end of the world is nigh, but an active desire to bring it about. And soon.

By all means, read the whole thing.

It's yet another illustration, if one were needed, of the truth of Charles Mackay's observation that "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

Hat tip: Instapundit.com

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