{"id":958,"date":"2020-01-23T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/?p=958"},"modified":"2020-02-12T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:40:42","slug":"are-ecologists-and-big-capital-one-and-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2020\/01\/23\/are-ecologists-and-big-capital-one-and-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Are ecologists and big capital one and the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In France\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revuedesdeuxmondes.fr\/article-revue\/ecolos-grand-capital-meme-combat\/\">Revue des Deux Mondes<\/a>, Max Falque questions the unnatural coalition between environmental activists and big business that supports environmental regulation. He quotes the analysis of Bruce Yandle in his famous article <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.shu.edu\/~rotthoku\/Liberty\/On%20Bootleggers%20&amp;%20Baptists.pdf\">\u201cOn Bootlegers and Baptists\u201d<\/a>. The American economist drew a parallel with the de facto alliance between criminals and righteous leagues to close businesses on Sundays, as explained by Falque:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The environmentalists play the role of the Baptists who, for moral reasons, support Sunday closing laws. Today, instead of closing liquor stores, these \u201cenvironmental Baptists\u201d want to ban carbon emissions. [\u2026] With specific government subsidies to companies for clean technology development and a seat at the regulators&#8217; table, the \u201cenvironmental smugglers\u201d are acting like the bootleggers of yesteryear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with this distressing picture of green collusion capitalism, the task is immense:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To face this new deadly religion, intellectual and political mobilization is the best, if not the only, insurance. What remains to be imagined is a new environmental policy that is realistic, effective, independent of big business and the extremism of media and ecologists. Vast programme. Denouncing the system is no guarantee of reform, but it is nevertheless legitimate to ask who benefits from certain environmental regulations. [\u2026] What will be their real impact or their possible perverse effects on the protection and management of environmental resources?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> Max Falque, <em>Revue des Deux Mondes<\/em>, \u00ab \u00c9colos, grand capital\u2026 m\u00eame combat ? \u00bb, February 2020 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revuedesdeuxmondes.fr\/article-revue\/ecolos-grand-capital-meme-combat\/\">single article<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revuedesdeuxmondes.fr\/article-revue\/ecolos-grand-capital-meme-combat\/\">full issue<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France\u2019s Revue des Deux Mondes, Max Falque questions the unnatural coalition between environmental activists and big business that supports environmental regulation. He quotes the analysis of Bruce Yandle in his famous article \u201cOn Bootlegers and Baptists\u201d. The American economist drew a parallel with the de facto alliance between criminals and righteous leagues to close <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2020\/01\/23\/are-ecologists-and-big-capital-one-and-the-same\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Are ecologists and big capital one and the same?<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}