A genuinely free market is the surest way to encourage innovation. The rapid development of not one but two viable vaccines to the coronavirus is the latest example of the value of competition with which we are all familiar.
Whenever politicians discuss climate change, there is a lot of talk about science. The problem is that the actual conversation never ends up being very scientific. It always ends up being political, and if I were to list the number of problems made better by politics, what would follow is a blank page.
Politics is how we end up with promises to reverse the entire history of earth’s changing climate if only we relinquish our economic and energy freedom to politicians — who seem focused more on social justice and increasing the cost of energy than on protecting our natural ecosystems.