| “A new species has arisen – the Homo dogmaticus novus… hatched in mushy intellectual fringes,” Ehricke wrote in 1978. “It generates an anti-technology and anti-productivity climate, socially adversary environmentalism, and no-growth mentality, used by catastrophists, phantasts and opportunists of many kinds. It has damaged our, and the entire Western economy, bedeviled our clear-eyed politicians, cost the taxpayer innumerable billions in new bureaucracies that produce nothing or less, generated scarcities as well as future-scare, and undermined our free enterprise system. The impact has been, and is, deleterious in many fields, prominently so in the energy and space sectors.” |