Solution Without a Problem

Wil Wirtanen sent me this letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal which sums up the Global Warming debate:


The global warming debate seems more and more like a solution in search of a problem. In this case, the solution is big government. Every action currently being proposed to alleviate global warming increases the power of government. Capping CO2 emissions would of course require a degree of control over the private lives of ordinary citizens that makes the restrictions of the Patriot Act look minor.

It would be interesting to challenge some of these global warming activists to come up with solutions that diminish government influence. It should be possible to do so with a little bit of imagination. I suspect that any such solution would be immediately shot down as not practical.

Victor Skowronski
Woburn, Mass.