Hot Air: Improving the Environment

FOR the last thirty years, but especially since the advent of the Clinton Administration, the Greens have been gathering power into their hands, and conservatives have had precious little success in stopping them. Behind the scenes, though, much work has been done, and the time is ripe for a counterattack. For the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting, society president M. Stanton Evans put together a program that offered some tips for our soldiers in the field.

1. Don’t concede the argument. As Bill Dennis of the Liberty Fund put it, if someone starts talking about “the environment,” stop him right there: “there are many environments; some of them are good for some things, others for others.”

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Linda Bridges

Ms. Bridges is the former editor-at-large of National Review.

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FOR the last thirty years, but especially since the advent of the Clinton Administration, the Greens have been gathering power into their hands, and conservatives have had precious little success in stopping them. Behind the scenes, though, much work has been done, and the time is ripe for a counterattack. For the Philadelphia Society’s annual meeting, society president M. Stanton Evans put together a program that offered some tips for our soldiers in the field.

1. Don’t concede the argument. As Bill Dennis of the Liberty Fund put it, if someone starts talking about “the environment,” stop him right there: “there are many environments; some of them are good for some things, others for others.”