Posted on 04/22/2011 2:14:39 PM PDT by TheFreedomPoster
This Earth Day, we celebrate not the public acts of environmental symbolism, but the quiet, everyday acts that have made the real difference in environmental sustainability. Here are five of countless examples that come to mind...
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All of economic activity has as its sole purpose the improvement of the environment-it aims exclusively at the improvement of the external, material conditions of man's life. Production and economic activity are precisely the means by which man adapts his environment to himself and thereby improves it.
Only from the perspective of the alleged intrinsic value of nature and the nonvalue of man, can man's improvement of his environment be termed destruction of the environment.
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