The Hockey Schtick
"If we make
the necessary efforts to address this challenge—and supposing I'm wrong
or scientists are wrong, 97% of them all wrong—supposing they are,
what's the worst that can happen?" Mr. Kerry said. "We put millions of
people to work transitioning our energy, creating new and renewable and
alternative; we make life healthier because we have less particulates in
the air and cleaner air and more health; we give ourselves greater
security through greater energy independence—that's the downside."
So
the "downside" of addressing climate policy is more jobs, cleaner air,
more energy security, and we save the planet too. Makes you wonder why
there aren't already 100 Senate votes for this miracle. Perhaps that's
because the "energy policy" Mr. Kerry is talking about includes vast new
political control over the economy, starting with taxes and limits on
carbon energy, subsidies for his favored energy sources, and new and
costly regulations on much of the American Midwest, South and West.
The
"worst that can happen" is that we spend trillions of dollars trying to
solve a problem that we can't do anything to stop; that we misallocate
scarce resources in a way that slows economic growth; that slower growth
leads to less economic opportunity for Boston College grads and
especially the world's poor, and that America and the world become much
less wealthy and technologically advanced than we would otherwise. All
of which would make the world less able to cope with the costs of
climate change if Mr. Kerry is right."
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