On the Mises site today, Sean Corrigan has this superb essay on the demand by anti-growth types that we make ourselves miserable so that they can feel good about “saving the planet.”

The piece contains some very interesting history on Nazi Germany’s infatuation with “alternative” energy in the 1930s.

Here’s a sample of Corrigan’s zesty writing: “It is critically important, however, to recognize such an instance of ‘fatal conceit’ as being all too characteristic of those who pander to the modern day danse macabre of exhaustionism and collectivist penury which so infuses both the anti-humanist Greens and the rent-grubbing business types who hypocritically seek to line their pockets by pandering to these latter-day Savonarolas.”