These human-hating apostles of doom have the whole picture precisely upside down; they treat the natural world and its health not as a means to human ends, but as an end in itself and as the object of some new pagan religion, the goal of which is to regress to man’s primitive state. These environmentalists will have to pardon those of us who believe the Great Enrichment, caused by the market-liberal order, is a thing to be fostered and cherished, advanced at every opportunity in word and in deed. When we worry about the natural world—and we should—our worries should...