A Free Market Place

It is said that global warming is the result of man made atmospheric emissions. Truth is that cars, trucks, and industry generate huge amounts of nasty emissions. And truth be told, these emissions are manageable. Emissions are a factor of economic activity rather than the result of bad environmental policy.

The United States has about 5% of the world's population. It produces more than 25% and consumes about 30% of the world's products. And the United States generates about half of the world's profits. Yet the United States uses about 20% of the world's resources both in energy and otherwise to achieve it's economic activity. What's happening is that activity increases while the use of energy per GDP dollar is actually decreasing. And that is as it should be.

Common sense would dictate that environmentalists worldwide might cheer reduction of energy use to create economic activity. Yet the opposite is actually true. The world's other nations are uniting to slow American economic activity in the name of saving the environment. This strategy is embodied in the Kyoto protocols that call for regression of economic activity. You might call it the Amish form of enviro-economic policy. Pick a date, any date, and agree to turn back the clock to activity taking place at that time. Don't worry about the world's population that is for the first time participating in business. It's not personal empowerment that matters, it's government power. And the United States is the rotten apple that infects so many with hopes of opportunity. It's the United States that is tempting many to take risks to earn an income and possibly even a profit.

In the 19th century form of caretaker government thinking, a free market is much more dangerous than Osama. Imagine that a majority of the population might actually rely on themselves rather than on the government promised "cradle-to-grave" security. It's no wonder that President Bush is feared and hated as he is around the globe. He represents freedoms which other governments believe the ignorant people have no use for.