The Environment

A brief overview of how we can look at economic and environmental issues with an Austrian perspective.

The degrowth movement seeks to mitigate climate change by ending economic growth, which is really a move to engage in large-scale depopulation.

In our present age, nature conservation is seen as a state-empowered activity. However, only by understanding praxeology can we engage in effective conservation.

Both environmental groups and governments are suing energy companies for allegedly causing climate change. One doubts their legal efforts will result in better weather.

Environmentalists insist on banning fossil fuels and refrigerant gasses in order to end heat waves. That means people will face future heat waves (which will always be with us) without air conditioning, bringing even more heat-related deaths.

Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz believes that the path to freedom is . . . less freedom. Of course, he doesn’t package his advocacy of socialism as the diminishing of freedom but rather as expanding freedom by restraining economic freedom.

Almost all of the climate hysteria is driven by the “luxury beliefs” held by Western elites. Only the wealthiest can afford the effects of climate policy. 

So-called climate change is really an excuse for government to do what it does worst: intervene in our economic affairs. While government efforts will not cool the planet, they will make life more difficult for the planet’s inhabitants.

So-called climate change is really an excuse for government to do what it does worst: intervene in our economic affairs. While government efforts will not cool the planet, they will make life more difficult for the planet’s inhabitants.

Environmentalists deride what they call “greenwashing,” which involves making a public show of supporting environmental causes but not changing business practices. There is some truth to the term, but environmentalists fail to see a larger picture.