Stern ja vuohen uhraajat

Ollaan pääsemässä asian ytimeen. George Reisman näkee Stern raportin alastomuuden koskematta lainkaan kysymykseen onko ilmaston lämpeneminen ihmisen aiheuttamaa vai ei: Britain's Stern Review on Global Warming: It Could Be Environmentalism's Swan Song. Pikkupoika suosittaa erityisesti kaikille niille vapautta rakastaville, joilla on ollut vaikeuksia sulattaa esimerkiksi Pikkupojan muuta ilmastokirjoittelua.

Whether or not they are aware of it, in attempting to combat alleged global warming, Sir Nicholas, and the rest of the environmentalists, are urging a policy of deliberate counteractive global climate change by the world's governments. They want the world's governments to change the world's climate from the path that they believe it is otherwise destined to take. They want the world's governments to make the earth's climate cooler than they believe it will otherwise be as the next two centuries or more unfold. But their policy of climate control is the most stupid one imaginable. It's more stupid than a modern-day equivalent of a savage's attempting to control nature by the sacrifice of his goat.

The reason it's more stupid, much more stupid, is that the goat that they want to sacrifice is most of modern industrial civilization — the part that depends on the 80% of the carbon emissions they want to eliminate, and which will not be replaced through any magical power of words to create and control reality, however much they may believe in that power. It is precisely modern industrial civilization and its further expansion and intensification that is mankind's means of coping with all aspects of nature, including, if it should ever actually be necessary, the ability to control the earth's climate, whether to cool it down or to warm it up.