“The environmentalist solution to global warming is…the massive violation of economic freedom and the imposition of massive economic sacrifice, in the insane belief that the way to cope with the destructive forces of nature is to deprive man of his means of coping with them, as though he, and not nature were the cause of those destructive forces, as though nature, left to itself, were benign.”

This was originally posted here at the Mises Institute on March 28, 2006.