ARI Sponsors Anti-Earth Day on Forty-Three College CampusesApril 17, 2001
MARINA DEL REY, CA-Earth Day should be a celebration of the achievements of industry and technology, not of their destruction, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute
"It's a myth that the environmentalists are saving the Earth for man-they actually see human beings as the enemies of nature," said Dr. Andrew Bernstein. "Earth Day should be the occasion for celebrating the earth as a great value-not in and of itself, but only as a means to achieve human values."
Bernstein said Earth Day 2001's theme of 'Leave your car at home' expresses the environmentalists' fundamental contempt of industrial society, progress, and human values. "Without automobiles there would be little commerce, communication, or freedom," said Bernstein. "The goal of the environmentalists is to see man crawling back to the cave."
ARI is cooperating with the Virginia-based Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism in a national campaign to protest Earth Day as anti-human life, and to celebrate the benefits to man of developing the earth. This joint effort will climax with a demonstration at the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22.
Ayn Rand Institute senior writer Andrew Bernstein is available for interviews.
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