The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.
Conservation will take place where individuals are allowed to seek solutions. Necessity is the mother not only of invention but of conservation as well.
The concept of "productive complements" shows us how capitalists have long sought to make as much use as they can of every part of the materials they use to make goods.
Even if we accept the mainstream narrative on the effects of climate change, the costs of implementing a global regulatory "mitigation" program are far higher than advocates admit.
A combination of federal sugar subsidies, federal regulations on pollution, and federal control of Lake Okeechobee (a giant lake in southern Florida) runoff guidelines has created a recipe for disaster.
