When scientists spoke of global climate change in the 1970s, they meant that another Ice Age was on the horizon. Had we acted on their recommendations back then, we would have implemented policies that todays scientists view as harmful.
Randall G. Holcombe is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, and author of the Independent book Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American History.
Other Independent Review articles by Randall G. Holcombe | ||
Spring 2023 | Generation Gap: Why Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture | |
Winter 2022/23 | Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy | |
Winter 2021/22 | Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School | |
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