Environmentalism: Sacrificing Mankind to Nature (MP3 download) Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall Forum

Environmentalism: Sacrificing Mankind to Nature (MP3 download) Ayn Rand at the Ford Hall ForumBy Peter Schwartz Environmentalism, Mr. Schwartz argues, is a synthesis of religion and socialism. Eschewing the former's concern with a "hereafter," and abandoning the latter's facade of respect for material production, environmentalism takes up the same assault on reason, self interest and capitalism. This lecture reveals how the environmentalist movement seeks to keep nature "free" and human action under rigid controlwhich means: to sacrifice man

Hierarchy as an indispensable form of integration

Decades of environmentalist activism have entrenched in the general public a widespread belief in global warming

relatively under-explored concept of sense of life

The final three lectures illustrate the power of the DIM Hypothesis to reveal the anatomy of Western culture

conscious ideas)

The Greeks began to contemplate the possibility of a “common peace” for all

1990 at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston

Leonard Peikoff and others

it demonstrates the inescapable need for a rational philosophic foundation for American policy

the difference between motivation by love and by fear

such as the Great Depression or the energy crisis of the 1970s

Drawing on material from their book-in-progress