Environmentalism is not a good thing.

• Position: Climate Change - Brief article

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, has authored Blue Planet in Green Shackles--What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., in which he makes the case that policies being proposed to address global warming are not justified by current science and are, in fact, a dangerous threat to freedom and prosperity around the world.

Klaus argues that the environmental movement has transformed itself into an ideology that seeks to restrict human activities at any cost, while pursuing an impossible utopian dream of a perfectly "natural" world. The supposed threat of human civilization against a fragile Earth has become an article of faith, especially in the realm of global warming activism. "The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century is no longer...