Submitted by Kyle Johnson, Apr 23, 2007 01:18

Well, the ballots are in and Mr Glaeser is winner by a landslide of the Dystopia Award for 2007, and perhaps all time.

There could never be a more perfect example of Orwellian Double Think than Mr Glaeser's conclusion to his commentary, Greenest Policy is Growth, "Let's celebrate every future Earth Day by permitting another environmentally friendly 50-story high rise..."

Wake up and smell the corpses as Earth's population increases to 10, 12, 14 billion humans around mid century and then settles in to a more comfortable, say, 2 billion around 2100.

And I love The Manhattan Institute's motto - "Turning Intellect into Effluence." How appropriate: a sewage plant of the mind. You don't mind if I choose not to be downstream, eh?

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