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> It is clear that climate change is not something
> the market can handle in any effective manner. Only government action has any
> possibility of tackling this problem.
I do not have blind faith in government to solve difficult problems. The only
way
that I have seen that consistently solves difficult problems is trial and
error. But
government does not do trial and error efficiently. Typically, there are very
few
ideas, sometimes only one, and the failures are not abandoned, but
instead suck down resources indefinitely. Far better to let prices and market
forces evolve efficient solutions. If "climate change" is a high-priority
problem
that is not adequately touched by market forces, then perhaps there is a small
role
that government can play, but never in specific policy. The government role
should be limited to addressing market failures, such as when carbon-emitters
do not pay for costs to the environment that everyone experiences. For example,
a carbon-tax.
> Later on I
> recalled the words of one of my best professors from grad school, who pointed
> out that the issue with Libertarianism is that it is held most strongly by
> those
> who would be most likely to prosper in such a system.
The same could be said of virtually all politics. There are many people who want
to make laws to benefit some at others expense. I prefer to minimize all such
laws. Freedom is the best policy.
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