In 2020 Michael Shellenbeger wrote a book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.” Apparently he had been a longtime progressive and environmental activist. I seem to recall that a lot of people were very upset with him. Surprise!
Economics does consider the "tragedy of the commons", in which the effects of one person's energy use is an externality imposing costs on other people. It is appropriate to take such externalities into account, but the type of people who throw colored liquids at paintings are not the one's I'd like to have making such decisions.
And economics shows the cure for the tragedy of the commons is secure property rights. By all means, those whose property is damaged by other people's CO2 emissions need to take them to court and sue for damages...
The most important property rights for solving this problem are patents on energy technologies such as nuclear reactors, batteries and solar cells, as well as protection for intellectual property such as more efficient artificial intelligence algorithms.
It is no small amount of pleasure to see heresy in the ranks of the Climatists religion. Germany and other European countries have suffered for making policy based on their tenets. Unfortunately for us, many of our power companies bended their knee to this pseudoscientific rubbish at the behest of democratic-governed states, investing in unreliable power sources that depend greatly on consistently ideal weather and solar conditions without the one true storage battery, their Holy Grail. Now, ever-increasing energy is needed.
Their "necessary" rate increases steadily, to support these "upgrades" claw at the living standard we hold so dear, yet, at the same time, they promise that this "clean" energy is abundant and promises to reduce energy costs.
We need to make policy to adapt to a warming climate, not a futile attempt to tame it.
Haven't the Wokes heard the Al Gore pocketstuffing money making ( Why Work like In Physical Labor) Scam has been scientifically blowned to smithereens?? Boy!! Their entitlest taxpayers scaring 😨 the living Hell out of people who have no common sense is passe' ! OR ARE THEY STILL UNDER THE MISCONCEPTION WHOM THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS?? THE DEMORATS!! AKA THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COMMIE CAREER SWAMPERS ?? GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🙏 AMEN 🇺🇸 AMEN 🇺🇸 AMEN 🇺🇸 🙏
Having moved several hundred miles south of where I grew up, I've experienced several degrees of warming due to that move. Such moves in North America are manageable when done over the period of a century, though in other parts of the world such moves could only be done by crossing national borders, which can be difficult.
In 2020 Michael Shellenbeger wrote a book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.” Apparently he had been a longtime progressive and environmental activist. I seem to recall that a lot of people were very upset with him. Surprise!
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But he doesn't trust free-markets to get it right by selling to freely choosing consumers the energy supplies they want.
Just another peddler of statist coercive force...
Economics does consider the "tragedy of the commons", in which the effects of one person's energy use is an externality imposing costs on other people. It is appropriate to take such externalities into account, but the type of people who throw colored liquids at paintings are not the one's I'd like to have making such decisions.
And economics shows the cure for the tragedy of the commons is secure property rights. By all means, those whose property is damaged by other people's CO2 emissions need to take them to court and sue for damages...
The most important property rights for solving this problem are patents on energy technologies such as nuclear reactors, batteries and solar cells, as well as protection for intellectual property such as more efficient artificial intelligence algorithms.
Patents and IP constrain innovation. Feudal grants of sales monopolies become the goal instead of constant first to market innovation...
There is indeed a role for trade secrets.
Yes, but that has nothing to do with grants of monopoly from the state...
It is no small amount of pleasure to see heresy in the ranks of the Climatists religion. Germany and other European countries have suffered for making policy based on their tenets. Unfortunately for us, many of our power companies bended their knee to this pseudoscientific rubbish at the behest of democratic-governed states, investing in unreliable power sources that depend greatly on consistently ideal weather and solar conditions without the one true storage battery, their Holy Grail. Now, ever-increasing energy is needed.
Their "necessary" rate increases steadily, to support these "upgrades" claw at the living standard we hold so dear, yet, at the same time, they promise that this "clean" energy is abundant and promises to reduce energy costs.
We need to make policy to adapt to a warming climate, not a futile attempt to tame it.
Haven't the Wokes heard the Al Gore pocketstuffing money making ( Why Work like In Physical Labor) Scam has been scientifically blowned to smithereens?? Boy!! Their entitlest taxpayers scaring 😨 the living Hell out of people who have no common sense is passe' ! OR ARE THEY STILL UNDER THE MISCONCEPTION WHOM THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS?? THE DEMORATS!! AKA THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COMMIE CAREER SWAMPERS ?? GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🙏 AMEN 🇺🇸 AMEN 🇺🇸 AMEN 🇺🇸 🙏
Record 106F in England today. Hundreds dead in Europe from heat.
Ok, maybe people can survive with air conditioning. But crops?
Having moved several hundred miles south of where I grew up, I've experienced several degrees of warming due to that move. Such moves in North America are manageable when done over the period of a century, though in other parts of the world such moves could only be done by crossing national borders, which can be difficult.
Wait. You mean the closer you get to the equator, the hotter it gets? Well, I never.