Environmentalists claim they want to save the Earth for mankind. This is a lie.

"Environmentalists view man as the enemy," writes Peter Schwartz, editor and contributing author of Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand, in his essay "The Philosophy of Privation." "Environmentalism takes as its premise that nature must be protected, not for man but from man. It is not human welfare that sets the standard by which environmentalists make their judgments."

Schwartz's unique argument shows that the environmentalists want us to return to a state of pre-industrial primitivism. He also argues that:

Mankind will never run out of natural resources -- as long as it has political freedom to engage in production.
Environmentalism is fundamentally anti-science.
Environmentalists regard privation as a moral ideal.

Return of the Primitive updates and expands Ayn Rand's 1971 book The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Schwartz's three new essays on environmentalism, multiculturalism and feminism gives currency to Rand's original book, showing how the philosophy of the New Left, a 1960s ideology opposed to industrialization, continues to permeate our culture today.