There are a lot of ways you could measure the profound changes that have taken place in this country over the past century. You could talk about the civil rights movement, which pretty much everyone on the Left does — constantly, all the time. You could talk about the growth of our GDP and the stock market. Or you could talk about our many technological advancements in aviation and space flight and computing and so on. Plenty of people talk about those achievements, too.
What’s less discussed are our views about nature and the environment. I’m not talking about the politics of “man-made global warming,” and all the junk science behind it. I’m talking about our view of nature as a totally non-political concept. That’s changed, too, and not for the better.
When he was president, Teddy Roosevelt doubled the number of national parks, made the Grand Canyon a national monument,…
