Environmentalists rightly point out it is very difficult to manage a complex ecosystem. But they conveniently ignore the fact it's even more difficult to manage an economic system — especially one thrown into disarray by environmental regulations.
There are only two ways to solve environmental challenges: competition and technology. That requires capitalism, not the government.
It appears many Indians and Brazilians and Chinese are willing to risk the global warming for a chance at experiencing even a small piece of what wealthy first-world climate activists have been enjoying all their lives.
Europe is seeing the dangers of allowing demagogy to dictate energy policy.
This should be shocking to naïve citizens and those who assumed that “the science” must all support the UN’s temperature goals.
Activists who genuinely believe the world faces catastrophe should give serious consideration to David Henderson’s reasons for thinking a carbon tax might be a false “solution."
Brazil — and its longtime disregard for property rights — has shown us how not to manage forest lands. Current calls for government solutions to forest fires do nothing to offer real solutions.
The whole episode shows the folly of top-down political solutions to social challenges.
Proposals to ban single-use plastics is yet another triumph of symbolism over substance. Unfortunately, while the benefits are largely illusory, the costs are quite real.
People use the marketplace to deliver what others need and want. Environmentalism, on the other hand, is built around denying human needs.
