From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 07:21:23 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>I favor environmentalism, I like trees and nature, Im all for it.
>But the field has been hijacked by statists. If you read over those
>references, there is an unspoken assumption that all change
>is bad, unconscionable. They spend all their efforts convincing
>the proletariat that global warming is real, then dont bother
>explaining why it is bad.
Economists have spend quite a bit of effort estimating and
weighing the positive and negative consequences. I don't
follow this area very closely, but here is one link:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/web%20rice%20summary%20102599.htm
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