Anti-development eco-alarmists fail to realize that poverty, not prosperity, poses the ultimate environmental threat. How can we unleash the vast environmental benefits of prosperity and freedom? Share the facts at CFACT.org: cfact.org/2014/10/13/environment-benefits-from-free-enterprise-prosperity/ In the 1980s the mother of all scares came along. Sure, those fossil fuels turned out to be much more plentiful than expected, but using them dangerously overheats the planet. Entirely premised upon theoretical and ultimately unrealized climate model predictions of soaring global temperatures, the U.N. rapidly established a Framework Convention on Climate Change along with an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to prove this constituted a man-caused calamity. The past 18 years of flat global temperatures despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels suggests otherwise. History teaches us that Malthus was wrong — very wrong. The zero-sum game philosophy carried forward by modern-day doctrinarian disciples ignores enormous benefits that free market enterprise and prosperity have brought to our lives, to our country, and to our planet. Where economies have flourished, so have innovations that have brought better conservation methods, greater food supplies and improved sanitary conditions. Life expectancies have more than doubled since times when raw sewage was heaped upon the streets of grand Greek and Roman empires and plagues and famines devastated rural populations. Malthusians who perceive economic growth destructive to the environment overlook the fact that that such development yields innovations and prosperity essential to support more resourceful, cleaner and healthier lifestyles. No, we can’t turn back the clock to live in a better pre-industrial time. There never was one.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:45:01 +0000
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