The moment to
be wariest of political enthusiasms is precisely when elite opinion is
all lined up on one side. So it is with the weekend agreement out of
Paris on climate policy, which President Obama declared with his
familiar modesty “can be a turning point for the world” and is “the best
chance we have to save the one planet that we’ve got.”
Forgive us for
looking through the legacy smoke, but if climate change really does
imperil the Earth, and we doubt it does, nothing coming out of a gaggle
of governments and the United Nations will save it. What will help is
human invention and the entrepreneurial spirit. To the extent the Paris
accord increases political control over human and natural resources, it
will make the world poorer and technological progress less likely."
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