There is no secure foundation in climate science for the current policy rhetoric; governments simply lack the knowledge to operate climate-change policy effectively. Moreover, policy is based on the neoclassical economics assumption that climate change is a case of market failure. However, it is not markets that have failed but governments in failing to protect property rights.
We are going to have world central planning in order to control the climate and protect the holy earth from the effects of industrialization. Oh, and tax us good and hard in the process.
"A lesson in basic economics should suffice to defend against the sustainists' attack."
"Mandated recycling exists mainly because there is plenty of money to be made by labeling products as "green" or "recycled" to get municipal and federal grants."
"The computer models that incorporate the greenhouse-gas theory are being massively contradicted by current readings."
Social institutions matter most, and they are very wrong now: a huge improvement is possible, and freedom is the answer.
Recycling happens naturally when there is market demand for waste items like plastic, paper, metal or glass, but mandated recycling does more harm than good. When do you know that recycling is worthy? You know when some person or business asks to buy your particular waste from you, not when some authority forces you to recycle.
"I just want to caution Austrian and libertarian readers not to assume that anyone who 'thinks global warming is a big hoax' is automatically a great scholar.
As for the old conservative claim that libertarians are insufficiently worried about the Soviet threat and too much about garbage collection, note that the Soviet Union is gone and the garbage problem is still with us.
