Decades before environmentalism became the widely accepted ideology that it now is, Ayn Rand identified the philosophical foundations of it, and the disastrous results we can expect if the policies demanded by advocates of the ideology are implemented.

Keith Lockitch and Nikos discuss Rand’s essays “The Anti-Industrial Revolution” and “The New Left,” and the lessons we can take from these essays, and Rand’s philosophy in general, in dealing with today’s environmentalist movement.