environmentalism

Tomorrow is the environmentalist movement's "World Car-Free Day" with plans to disrupt traffic by having crowds of people "get together in the streets, intersections, and neighborhood blocks to remind the world that we don't have to accept our car-dominated society."

Radical groups might well attempt to block expressways in what they call a "celebration of freedom from the automobile."

Though it likes to cast itself as progressive and enlightened, environmentalism, with its succession of phony scares, its love of the 'natural' and the local, its fear of science and engineering, and its opposition to economic development and trade, is profoundly reactionary.

A headline in Huffington Post beautifully sums up the absurdity of much environmentalist thinking on transportation.

The headline: "A Sustainable City Requires Increased Mass Transit Subsidies."

This is the lead in to a familiar recital of what's supposedly needed to save the world from eco-catastrophe and New York City in particular, by a Stephen Cohen of the Earth Institute.