The real debate should be about costs and benefits of alternative human actions, about how to rationally deal with the unknown future, about what kind and size of solidarity with much wealthier future generations is justified, about the size of externalities and their eventual appropriate “internalization”, about how much to trust the impersonal functioning of the markets in solving any human problem, including global warming and how much to distrust the very visible hand of very human politicians and their bureaucrats. Some of these questions are touched upon in my book.read more | digg story
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The man Al Gore won't debate has written a book
Václav Klaus, Presentation of the book “Blue Planet in Green Shackles”, National Press Club, Washington D.C., May 27, 2008:
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John, thank you for posting the comments of Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.Everyone should read these comments, better yet, his book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles." I always did believe that this mania for bucking nature was politically motivated by persons who like to jump on the latest craze or who stand to profit thereby.Ted Kubicek (by happenstance a full-blooded Czech
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