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I never thought it to be possible for someone to be so caught up in an emotional ideology of economics and money until I read an excerpt from “The Armchair Economist: Economics in Everyday Life” called “Why I Am Not An Environmentalist” by Steven E. Lands ....

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.... that such a conflict in preferences is or should be morally neutral is a gross attempt at suppressing our humanity in the interest of profit. Isn’t morality or in other words virtue, what civilization needs to strive for more so then ever? I fear logic that excludes morality, for its conclusions could seldom be virtuous. It seems to me that in this introduction he is openly admitting that his concept of economics is corrupt. Next Landsburg stumbles over the “irrevocability” argument. Using the same example of paving, this is the environmentalist idea that “wilderness should take precedence over parking because the decision to pave is i ....