Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus interprets his stance on global warming…
I’m just surprised to hear that I’m skeptical vis-a-vis environmentalism. I’m not skeptical. I am totally against it. “Skeptical” is an understatement which I would never, never use.
Read the Powerline summary of President Klaus’s speech at the National Press Club today. Better yet, buy his book, Climate Confusion.
and this section lifted verbatim from the Powerline site…
Klaus defended freedom and indicted statism:
I know that you lived all your life in a world where you were used to discuss the market failure as a phenomenon. And there has been permanently attempts to correct some real or would-be market failures by government action, government intervention.
That was the spirit of the 20th century. I think that rational people and many American economists made a great contribution in this respect, started to study the opposite, started to study the government failure. And the issue is, is the market failure bigger and more dangerous than the government failure?You may have your experience, but my experience with half-a- century in communism, I know that government failure is incomparably worse than any market failure. So, therefore, my position on any form, kind, motivation of government intervention is quite clear, to limit it as much as possible.
Klaus couldn’t run for President, even if he wanted to, but is it too much to expect that a Republican presidential nominee might share his instinctive trust in freedom?
(emphasis and italics are mine)
