Friday, March 02, 2012

The Heartland Institute and Joe Bast: An Appreciation

Kudos to Bast and Heartland to see a major threat to personal freedom and economic prosperity from 'climate stabilization' . Climate alarmism is arguably the anti-industrialist, neo-Malthusians last stand, and it is a recipe for open-ended Big Brother.

Students of the dynamics of government intervention can see how a beginning carbon cap-and-trade program could be tomorrow's carbon police knocking on the door. Remember Jimmy Carter's thermostat regulations in the 1970s? Seen another way, it is not hard to fear the mentality of the Peter Gleicks and Joe Romms and the Paul Ehrlichs of the world.

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