More Reactionaries

This essay describes how environmentalists and economists see the world. Basic point is that economists are factual and environmentalists are moral. Both are wrong of course.

A slightly more unusual essay discusses the zeitgeist of Wikipedia as an place for zealots unwilling to break from their political correctness or -- in this case -- their environmental correctness:

Tabletop, it turns out, has another name: Kim Dabelstein Petersen. She (or he?) is an editor at Wikipedia. What does she edit? Reams and reams of global warming pages. I started checking them. In every instance I checked, she defended those warning of catastrophe and deprecated those who believe the science is not settled. I investigated further. Others had tried to correct her interpretations and had the same experience as I -- no sooner did they make their corrections than she pounced, preventing Wikipedia readers from reading anyone's views but her own. When they protested plaintively, she wore them down and snuffed them out.

Bottom Line: Righteousness has no place in our complex world. Global warming may be happening, but the skeptics are entitled to be heard. Fascism takes many forms, and wrapping yourself in the flag (or the baby seals or the earth) does not excuse you from it.