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Mises Daily
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George Reisman
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President Obama has proposed combining stimuli to promote employment with the fight against alleged man-made global warming, which allegedly results mainly from the burning of fossil fuels. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of new jobs will supposedly be created by replacing power from fossil fuels with power from windmills and solar panels.
Mises Daily
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George Reisman
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There is a fundamental fact about the world that has profound implications for the supply of natural resources and for the relationship between production and economic activity on the one side and man’s environment on the other. This is the fact that the entire earth consists of solidly packed chemical elements. There is not a single cubic
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
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George Reisman
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Volume 5, No. 2 (Summer 2002) A rational response to the possibility of large-scale environmental change is to establish the economic freedom of individuals to deal with it , if and when it comes. Capitalism and the free market are the essential means of doing this, not paralyzing government controls and “environmentalism.” Both in the
Mises Wire
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George Reisman
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In a manner reminiscent of witch doctors urging primitive people to sacrifice their sheep and goats in order to mollify the wrath of the gods, today’s environmentalists and their shills in the media and academe repeatedly urge the people of the United States and the rest of the modern world to sacrifice their use of energy and their standard of
Mises Wire
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An individual kills someone—for money, out of jealousy, as an act of revenge, or because he doesn’t like his victim’s looks. A chorus of left-”liberals” rushes in to excuse his act, especially if he is poor. He is not responsible, they say. The real criminal is “Society,” for having allowed him to live in the conditions that led him to kill.
Mises Wire
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George Reisman
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The flag is Green now, instead of Red. And the lyrics are different. But the tune is still the same old tune. When the Reds sang it, the lyrics were that the individual could not be left free because the result would be such things as “exploitation,” “monopoly,” and depressions. When the Greens sing it, the lyrics are that the individual cannot be
Mises Wire
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Here’s a message from an environmentalist who hides under the name “Tokyo Tom.” He says it comes “off of the web page of the world-renowned Wood`s Hole Oceanographic Institute”: [W]orld leaders may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur. It is important to clarify that we are not