Environmentalism is the product of the collapse of socialism in
a world that is ignorant of the contributions of Ludwig von
Mises—a world that does not know what he has said that would
logically explain the collapse of socialism and, even more
importantly, the success of capitalism. Because of ignorance of
the contributions of von Mises, the great majority of the
intellectuals, and of the general public too, which has been
subjected to the educational system fashioned and run by them,
continues to believe such things as that the profit motive is
the cause of starvation wages, exhausting hours, sweatshops, and
child labor; and of monopolies, inflation, depressions, wars,
imperialism, and racism. At the same time, they believe that
saving is hoarding and a cause of unemployment and depressions,
as is, allegedly, economic progress in the form of improvements
in efficiency. And by the same logic, they regard war and
destruction as necessary to prevent unemployment under
capitalism. In addition, they believe that