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​​Environment, Population, and Capitalism

​​Environment, Population, and Capitalism
A protester holds a sign that reads, 'Capitalism Eats Our Planet,' during the Climate Justice March from Times Square to Gov. Hochul's Manhattan office in New York on Nov. 13, 2021. PKena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Environmentalism has been an ideology of gloom for at least six decades. One of the fixed beliefs in the environmentalist faith has been that people—real live human beings—have been a source of danger both to the ecology of our planet and to the human race’s very survival.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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