Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace International, said in an interview in the New Scientist in December 1999, “the environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s…political activists were using environmental rhetoric to cover up agendas that had more to do with class warfare and anti-corporatism than with actual science…”1
While there are some who are informed and genuinely concerned about the environment, most of the present debate and policy pursual is fueled by environmentalists that came out of the 1960s with an anti-Christian, anti-capitalism, pro-Marxist and pro-socialist agenda. Simply put, they despise the biblical notions of “private property”, “if a man will not work then do not let him eat”, and that the earth and all that it produces is for man and under his domain (Genesis 1&2). Of course these 60s radicals are now professors, politicians and their offspring are in education, politics, and virtually every facet of American life.
- Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Acton Institute, 2007, p108 [↩]