Editorialist: The positions advanced by radical environmentalists often contain hypotheses that are false and proposals that are economically infeasible
But there is a positive role to be played even by extremists, for the social and political inertia that attends environmental issues is so stubborn that even small areas of progress can be made only if the populace fears environmental disaster, however untenable the reasons for those fears may be
Radical environmentalists advocate positions without regard for factual support or economic feasibility.