The Environment

This audio version of the Mises.org Daily Article was read by Dr. Floy Lilley.

So long as governments remain under the sway of environmentalist philosophy and arrogate massive tracts of land to their own inept control, no amount of legal tinkering will prevent the next bushfire.

All of these things deny the true desires of people — as revealed in market prices — and substitute the opinions of the elite and politically-powerful for the true desires of people.

Unfortunately, we cannot remain neutral while the experts battle.

Why do the proponents of global warming try to stamp out dissent? As Horner makes clear, billions of dollars are at stake.

We should be worried about building Battlestar Galactica.

Those of us who refuse to accept calls from proponents of global warming for drastic restrictions on production often confront objections like this:You skeptics, blinded by fanatical devotion to the free market, ignore evidence.

People will be strip-mining old landfills for petroleum products that they can convert into fuel.

To put it simply, those who truly want social progress should promote the idea that we should all think locally as individuals and act globally through the capitalist system. This is the creed of the true progressive.

Really smart guys (and now gals too) built impressive models that were quite rigorous in some respects, yet woefully deficient in others. In the case of economics, this hubris led to horrible government policies. We can only hope the same doesn't happen because of the climate models.