Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus

The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus | National Review Online
But they certainly didn’t act like a movement that was winning. 
There was a tone of fatalism in the comments of many with whom I spoke; they despair that the kind of radical change they advocate probably won’t result from the normal democratic process. 
It’s no surprise then that the rhetoric of climate-change activists has become increasingly hysterical. 
Naomi Klein, author of a new book on the “crisis,” This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, said, “I have seen the future, and it looks like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.” 
In her new book she demands that North America and Europe pay reparations to poorer countries to compensate for the climate change they cause. 
She calls her plan a “Marshall Plan for the Earth” and acknowledges that it would cost “hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars.” 
But she has an easy solution on how to pay for it: 
“Need more money? Print some!” 
What’s a little hyperinflation compared to “saving the planet”?

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