[Southack]

"If we take into account such factors as pollution and the depletion of natural capital, we see that the quality of life peaked in the UK in 1974 and in the US in 1968, and has been falling ever since."

You see, even the radical-Left Guardian paper says that we should go back to leaded gas, 8 liter V-8 engines, no catalytic converter gas guzzlers such as those being driven prior to 1968...

< GRIN! >

The poor Lefties simply have no honest arguments "left". They have to cry that the air is fouler, the water dirtier, and life more miserable; yet who would go back to the days of total smog over Birmingham and cars that would kill you in minutes if left running in your garage?

Any intellectually honest person who reads the Skeptical Environmentalist will instantly admit that our air and water are both cleaner today than in 1968, even though we have more people driving more cars and producing more goods today than back then.

Thus, the Left feels compelled to simply...lie.

[hinckley buzzard]

Don't hold your breath waiting for Intellectual honesty from the left.

Their entire edifice, from first assumptions to the final statist indignities are lies. In an honest world there would be no "left."