My PG and CEI colleague Iain Murray notes that the fading UK daily the Independent is urging its readers to vote green, singling out the paper’s definition of “forward-looking”: cycle-lanes, cheaper (code for coerced) public transport, more small shops and, ahem, eco-friendly housing.

As Cap Weinberger said of détente, if this is progress, we can’t afford much more progress.

Instead of Back to the Future, those who view the world through green-colored lenses urge us Forward to the Past. Remember how lovely the past was? As wonderful as those “indigenous lifestyles” which, like the workers’ paradise, the greens romanticize into the modern-day equivalent of Rousseau’s “noble savage” — while the poor folks stuck in those Edens struggle desperately to escape them.

But how far back must one go in the name of advancement? (Steve Hayward breaks that question down here).

Remember, War is Peace.