There a couple plans for the “Green New Deal” circulating in the U.S., UK, and elsewhere, all supposedly intended to tackle the causes of climate change with sweeping measures to de-carbonize society. Except as Tim Worstall of the UK’s Adam Smith Institute points out, […]
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BAD PASSENGERS: UK, Sweden Take Aim At Air Travel Mobility
For many years increased mobility was touted as one of the benefits of economic development as well as one of its main drivers, reflecting a virtuous cycle connecting the movement of labor and goods with rising prosperity. Now, however, mobility is viewed as anything but virtuous due to all-important environmental concerns. As in all […]