Carbon tax is LIBERTARIAN??!?!!
If the majority of people were so heartbroken by using oil, they would stop. Product/demand thingy would kick in.
And that ain’t happening.
Some Newbie was all impressed that this guy climbed everest.
I would have been happier if he stayed up there
Most people who want to “stop using oil” probably don’t realize that plastic is a petroleum product.
“Some Newbie was all impressed that this guy climbed everest.”
Haha, I watching “Seven Years in Tibet” the other day. What did the Tibetan girl call mountain climbing? A “foolish pleasure”?
It’s even worse than that climbing Everest, since you don’t need any skill anymore, you just need enough money to pay real climbers to haul your behind up there.
Ted Kennedy climbed the Matterhorn. Did not make a difference to his character.
The idea of a "pollution tax" was a libertarian alternative to environmental protection regulation back in the 1970s.
Of course, it goes against what we now think of as libertarianism, but at the time, people like Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard -- maybe Hayek and Mises, too -- liked the idea.