All around us, there are growing signs of environmental devastation and destruction: coal power plants in China spewing toxic chemicals into the air and water; deforestation and illegal poaching across the African continent; environmentally short-sighted, government-mandated sprawl, which has made walkable urbanism illegal in much of North America. Unfortunately, the policy response has been uninspired. More taxes, more subsidy, more regulations. And when the medicine fails to work? More taxes, more subsidy, more regulations. It’s time for some fresh ideas.
Let Them Eat Carbon, the provocative new book by my friend Matthew Sinclair of the UK Taxpayers’ Alliance, injects a welcome dose of original thinking into contemporary environmental debates.
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