Last week George Will addressed the William F. Buckley Society's "Disinvitation Dinner." During his speech he discussed the National Association of Scholars' new report, Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism.
Click on the video below to watch the excerpt of his speech.
Will commented,
"Recently, the National Association of Scholars, a wonderful outfit of right-minded, and, therefore, small, group of academics published a wonderful report that you all should read..."
"The doctrine of sustainability, as the word implies, postulates that we live in a world of grinding scarcity and increasing fragility and therefore that we live in a world that requires total control and a permanent crisis."
"...if you can control the promptings of the social environment, you can therefore...control minds."