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Are Libertarians Greedy and Delusional?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Importance of the Government in Addressing Climate Change

I'm not prepared to bless everything that government does. The large threshold question is whether pollution, which climate change is an example of, is something the free market can handle. If carbon emissions warm up the planet, you know, let's just stipulate that that's happening. There's nobody you can sue. There's too many emitters. There's the market isn't able to take care of this. So some government solution is the only way. A class action suit is messy. Neither libertarians nor Andrew Epstein will forgive me for calling them a status compared to me.

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