Monica Showalter writes for the American Thinker about the latest example of socialism’s destructive force in Venezuela.
Is there anything awful socialism can’t do?
Reuters has an excellent piece (other than omitting the ‘s’ word) about the terrible fate of Venezuela’s priceless botanical garden in Caracas. …
… Yes, I know, the country has far more hellish problems with people starving, fleeing, running out of water, and using machetes on one another to fight for garbage scraps.
But the destruction of nature is terrible, too. …
… I find this immensely sad. It’s part of a long continuum of socialist war with nature, the warlike result that gave us the ruin of Aral Sea, the black rivers of China, the ugliness of Norilsk nickel, and the wasteland of Cuba’s once prominent citrus groves and tobacco fields. Now it’s hit Venezuela, and not just the oil fields, and not just the nature reserves. …
… No nation with this kind of bounteous natural treasure should not have some kind of botanical garden to showcase its wonders, reminding the country of its vast inheritance, delighting its visitors, and teaching kids about it. In any normal society, even a poor one, a botanical garden is always possible. Just not a socialist one.
