Santorum’s Anti-Environmentalism

consortiumnews.com — On “Face the Nation” last Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused President Barack Obama of embracing a “phony ideal” of environmental theology that puts protection of the Earth above man’s desire to extract its resources, while grabbing more power for the government. “When you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man and says we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth …  it’s just all an attempt to centralize power, to give more power to the government,” the former Pennsylvania senator said. There are so many things wrong with this statement, it’s hard to know where to begin.

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