"...the misfortunes of by far the greater part of them have arisen from their not knowing when they were well, when it was proper for them to set still and to be contented."  —Adam Smith

"And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want."  -Edward Winslow, 11 December 1621

"If I could think that I had sent a spark to those who come after I should be ready to say Goodbye."  —Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

“You could afford your house without your government if it weren’t for your government.”  -Rush Limbaugh

I read part of Francis Galton's novel.  He was a celebrated scientist who coined the term "eugenics."  He proposed that "fit" people be paid to have large families.  Then it hit me:  He probably thought he was fit.  If so, the appeal goes from hard to understand to very easy.

The Oregon governor wants Americans to rat on their neighbors if they're having Thanksgiving.  This is the same governor that lets Antifa run rampant for over 100 days of mayhem during Covid!  This is tyrannical -- you cannot effectively have one law for favored people and another for disfavored.  What a brazen disgrace this woman is!

"There are certain possibilities that many among the intelligentsia cannot even acknowledge as possibilities, much less try to test empirically, which would be risking a whole vision of the world -- and of themselves -- on a roll of the dice."  -Thomas Sowell

According to Genesis, after God made man he looked at all of his creations:  "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

But for environmentalists, it was almost all very good.  Except for the people part.  Namely, other people.  Since the '60s, environmentalists have been screaming at us that they hate people:  One of their unending quests has been, since that time, for depopulation.  But sometimes they have been more explicit:

"It'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of cheap, clean, and abundant energy because of what we would do with it."  -Amory Lovins

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."  -Paul Ehrlich

The environmental left have had the same solutions to our problems since way before we had our problems.  And yet they think of themselves as "scientific."

There are no plain and simple problems any more. From poverty to race to crime to Vietnam, all we face are crises which threaten to bring down the world upon our heads.  –Ben Wattenberg, The New Republic, “The Nonsense Explosion,” 1970