” … with adaptation, total costs will be much smaller than the headline-grabbing numbers that climate economists and our government agencies choose to highlight, and with future growth our society will be far better equipped to handle them.”
“[If] changes occur gradually (as they are expected to), if they emerge in a world far wealthier and more technologically advanced than today’s (as we expect it to be), and if policymakers ensure that people have the information and incentives to plan well (something over which we have control), then climate change will impose real costs but ones that we should have confidence in our ability to manage.”
– Oren Cass (Manhattan Institute), Testimony, June 11, 2019.
Last summer, Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute testified before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget on adaptation as a proactive strategy to address climate change.…
There is no “natural” or geological crisis; there is an enormous political one. It is in the nature of a mixed economy that its policies are rationally inexplicable.
The filling stations of the universities have dried up long ago and have been peddling a corrosive mix that paralyzes the brains of the nation. If you want to fight pollution, start with the philosophy departments; and if you want to refuel–well, look for new sources of energy.
– Ayn Rand, The Energy Crisis, Part I and Part II (November 1973) [1]
Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, known to the world as Ayn Rand, was born 115 years ago in Saint Petersburg, Russian. She died in New York City on March 6, 1982. Best known as a novelist, she wrote on contemporary issues later in life.…
“Here are the frivolous fifty, with the common denominator to feel guilty about the joys of driving or flying; staying cool or warm; consuming meat, fish, or dairy. And ‘stop saying thank you [in notes and letters]’ and ‘shop vintage.’ And of course, install those solar panels (never mind the UK fog).”
Yesterday’s post examined the human-hate book, The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthrocene” by Patricia MacCormack (Bloomsbury Academic: 2020). A positive review of that screed introduced me to CambridgeshireLive, a progressive, climate-on-fire news source. There, I encountered CambridgeshireLive’s #Do1thing campaign listing 50 personal actions to address (really?) climate change.
With the failure of country-by-country politics to mitigate if not reverse emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), and consumers naturally choosing the best energies in terms of affordability, convenience, and reliability, it is business-as-usual with fossil fuels’ 85 percent global market share.…