Letters to the Editor
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Flat-earth nutbar
You can always detect a radical libertarian by his dismissal of the evidence for climate change:
"If you study the history, we've had a lot of climate changes. We've had hot spells and cold spells. They come and go"
Notice that although libertarians write vast, complex treatises based on economics, math, and logic, they're pretty weak when it comes to hard sciences. For all their pretenses at rationalism and science, a lot of libs are gibbering flat-earth nutbars who deny basic scientific fact, because it is inconvenient to their politics.
If climate change is real, then, (gasp) it might mean a carbon tax, or some intervention in the free market, (sob). God forbid someone from the government would make me get my fat ass out of the SUV and onto the subway. Therefore climate change MUST be untrue! Because if it's true then the libertarian philosophy will be as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
Unfortunately the planet doesn't give a crap about libertarian ideas. Either we choose to succeed by regulating human behavior to the necessary degree, or we choose to fail.