Anti-life consequences of "green" politics

Manslaughter is the killing of a human being without expressed or implied malice. Average life expectancy is very highly correlated with per capita income, and income growth is very highly correlated with economic freedom (note accompanying table).

When politicians enact anti-economic growth regulations and taxes, even in the name of "global warming," "environmentalism," and "fairness," they are, in fact, shortening the lives of many of their fellow citizens and those in other countries...

- Read more in Manslaughter by Politicians by Richard Rahn.

The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated... Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder. Read more here.

The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world’s population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom. But if you call yourself an “environmentalist,” you mark yourself as sharing the goals of mass destruction and death. A socialist dictatorship is the vehicle for achieving those goals, not a free market. - Economist George Reisman.