Some Like It Hot [1]
Submitted by Bob Burton [2] on
Numerous climate change skeptics [3] have spent most of the two decades denying increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations were anything to worry about. Donald J. Boudreaux [4], the chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University and an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute [5], takes a different tack. Referring to a recent New York Times report on increasing human longevity, Boudreaux attributes the change to the economic productivity of "capitalism." Turning to climate change, he argues that "it's a perfectly legitimate stance for truly reasonable people to conclude that the best policy regarding global warming is to neglect it -- and let capitalism continue to make us healthier and wealthier."