Title
"To Call A Situation Hopeless is to Call it Ideal"
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-25-2014
Publication Title
The PERCOLATOR - the PERC Blog
Publisher
Property and Environment Research Center
Abstract
The political and rhetorical battle lines have been drawn, and people are deciding which side they will take in the climate change crisis. On the one hand, we have most traditional environmental activists, a consensus of physical scientists, and a host of politicians who insist that we must do something about carbon emissions. This group wants to subsidize electric cars and solar power production, tax or ban coal-fired power plants, ban incandescent light bulbs, among other planned, top-down approaches. This group seems to believe that doing something is better than nothing. To do nothing, even if it won’t matter much, is unconscionable.
Recommended Citation
McCormick, Robert E., ""To Call A Situation Hopeless is to Call it Ideal"" (2014). Publications. 10.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/economics_pubs/10