The complexities of civilization (specifically when the question is about a collective good like the environment) aren't solved by reductionism such as government versus the market.
The climate change town halls made one thing clear: Democratic candidates think that government should run our civilization, rather than our civilization running a government.
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I didn't say anything about the market. There's a lot more to a civilization than a market plus a government. Or, there should be.
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Fits neatly into my model of rule of law vs. rule by law. The former is civilization, the latter is e.g. communist China. It matters whether government is upstream or downstream of norms.
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Given that these comments were at town halls, prompted by audience members & likely voters, doesn't that indicate any government would be downstream of norms? Our entire political debate at the moment seems to be normative, whether to accept, accelerate, resist or reverse change.
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Have you read Thomas Sowell’s A Confict of Visions? This is what he called the “unconstrained vision.” They tend toward top down organisation, control and grand utopian ideas.
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Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be an area where free market mechanics are effective, otherwise it wouldn't still be an issue worth discussing.
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Has the free market been any good at curbing climate change?
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Is having environmental policies in government that bad? Seems like sensible governance.
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Yes when their policies aim to put us back in the dark ages and at the same time vilify solutions that can power growing economies and reduce emissions...
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