Government Is Inefficient, But . . .

Until I was about 40, what Milton Friedman said at left made perfect sense to me.

That’s when I realized that free market capitalism is destroying the environment, and that without government regulation, our planet would soon be in flames.

Remarkably, there are many people, especially those in Big Oil, who understand climate change but think that wildfires, superstorms, desertification, ocean acidification and massive losses of biodiversity are an acceptable price to pay if it will transport them millionaires to billionaires.