Recycling Is A Religion For Some

Almost as much as light-rail. ;-)

GREAT column. Definitely read the whole thing, it's brief. Thanks to Dr. Rizzo at the UoR for the pointer.

Doubting recycling theology - Berkshire Eagle Online: "On 'Earth Day' our children's schools will be festooned with reminders of the supposed importance of recycling. No one will question the presumed moral imperative that 'everyone should recycle.' Education, in short, will yield to indoctrination. All too often in our schools, recycling is not assessed impartially; it is promoted as a supposedly costless and virtuous deed, to the extent that its practice has come to resemble a religious rite. But whether to recycle is not a sacrament but a personal choice and many of us, to the consternation of 'green' zealots, prefer rational inquiry to theology. Whether to recycle is, after all, a question of resource utilization in a world in which resources are scarce relative to our various competing demands for them. There is a well developed social science designed precisely to address this reality. That science is economics."