Posted by
MacArthur Parker on Monday, April 14, 2008 10:52:28 AM
The environmental lobby has been seeking broad powers to regulate industry, in order to protect us from pollution and other ecological "catastrophes". Without debating the merits of their position on AGW or whatever they are calling the current "crisis", lets look at their "solution".
The biggest ecological disasters happened in the old Soviet Union. The drying of the Aral Sea, air pollution in industrial cities like Vilnius and Vladivostok, and of course, the Chernobyl disaster make make the Love Canal look like Aspen Colorado. Currently, the biggest emitter of CO2 is China. So much for finding salvation with a managed economy.
Managed economies do not struggle to maximize profits, they struggle to survive on a very thin margin, causing them to be blinded any other concerns. Western corporations can afford to make concessions to the green lobby without going broke, because of the very profit margins that liberals hate them for.
So, even if it turns out that AGW is real, do not look to government to solve the crisis; history shows that it will only make things worse.