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Green Philosophy by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton’s critiques of our actions are under scrutiny by Paul Keeling.

Conservatives often avoid environmental issues. I suspect the following type of argument is often behind their denial of environmental problems such as anthropogenic climate change:

(1) Preventing anthropogenic climate change requires collective, large-scale action.

(2) Collective, large-scale action is a left-wing, socialist agenda.

(3) Therefore anthropogenic climate change doesn’t exist.

British philosopher Professor Roger Scruton, an intelligent and articulate proponent of conservatism, of course, utterly rejects this absurd reasoning, and (thankfully) does believe that climate change is a serious problem that demands action.

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