If you are looking to find some eco-friendly holiday gifts and decorations this year, be careful what advice you follow. Intentional or not, many suggestions about “eco-friendly” products are faulty because they are driven more by political preferences than scientific realities.
In the words of Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, there’s an “anti-capitalist mentality” among people on the Left, including many environmental activists, who operate under the assumption that free markets deliver nothing but “mischief and misery.” It’s an ideology that presumes humans were better off during the “good old days preceding the ‘Industrial Revolution,’” explains Mises in his book.
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