[updated] A great new post by libertarian Ron Bailey of Reason here: Congratulations to Al Gore But be wary of the man's proposed solutions for global warming. Ronald Bailey | October 12, 2007 http://www.reason.com/news/show/122960.html 1. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added), followed by a copy...
[Previously posted on a recent thread ( Malthus and Mein Kampf come to Cork - thanks, Sean Corrigan !) in response to someone who is concerned about environmental problems but is unfamiliar with Austrian approaches.] Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer) and we remain very...
"Not all externalities are crimes, and as long as CO2 does not make clear victims, it should be left as an externality for people to adapt to ...." In response to this statement on a recent thread ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/007152.asp#comments ), I observed, in the context of the impact...
[My very first post on this LvMI-hosted blog. Also, I see this was my first "Avatar"-related piece.] Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/daily/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to...