[ExI] Under the libertarian yoke

[Fred C. Moulton]

I would like to point out the obvious:  there is no libertarian position
on global warming.  To imply that there is such a thing is nonsense.
Persons who claim that there is such a position, in particular those who
claim to be libertarian, obviously have no clue about libertarianism.

Climate change is a subject for study by persons such as climatologists,
atmospheric physics and so forth.  There is no more a libertarian
position on climate change than there is a libertarian position on
string theory.

Fred

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 13:25 -0700, The Avantguardian wrote:
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Brainstorm here with us on how to solve the problem of global warming,
> > assuming that we have been invaded by highly advanced (and therefore
> > libertarian) aliens, who say they will fry with lasers everybody who
> > initiates the use of force but they won't help us otherwise in dealing
> > with our problems (of course they won't, they are heartless
> > libertarians). So, willy-nilly, if you want to avoid a miserable death
> > on a parched planet, you have to deal with global warming without
> > simply grabbing a gun and going after people who disagree with you.
> 
> When I was in college, a friend of mine named James Pitts wrote a science
> fiction short story regarding genetically-engineered bacteria that when
> injected into an oil field rapidly metabolized the oil and polymerized it into
> a fibrous gelatinous mass that was impossible to pump out of the ground.
> 
> Such an organism used on oil fields throughout the world might render them
> useless thus bringing the world to the point it would be in a few decades any
> way. One could concievably do this without violence or even without anyone
> knowing it had been done deliberately. Companies would have to switch to green
> energy because there would be no alternative. All without spilling a drop of
> blood. Although Exxon-Mobil might spill plenty of blood if it knew who was
> responsible such a thing.
> 
> 
> Stuart LaForge
> alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
> 
> "Life is the sum of all your choices."  
> Albert Camus
> 
> 
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