Quote of the Day: The Worst Environmental Calamity Is The Absence of Capitalism

Filth, hunger, short life expectancy, illiteracy, subjugation of women, sanguinary conflicts over scarce resources – these horrors are not the recent consequences of climate change. They are the ages-old consequences of persistent and widespread poverty. This poverty and its accompanying miseries were eliminated only when and only where people embraced the very economic system that so many of today’s environmentalists wish either to abolish outright or to jeopardize with unprecedented government-fashioned fetters: entrepreneurial capitalism.

This excerpt, an expose and rebuff of media's false attribution (cause and effect) of society's ills on the environment, was extracted from Prof Don Boudreaux's post at his blog Cafe Hayek.