...or so they tell me.
I was in this really quaint book store the other day looking for some good reads and I happened upon a conversation with one of the locals. She was a sweet well-read girl who had a surprisingly impressive intuition for economics. Need I say anymore, she was attractive! She said something that struck a chord for me. We were discussing the pros and cons of cap and trade and she said, in reference to the need for policy creation, that she didn't trust society to determine the outcome of an issue as important as those posed by global warming. She didn't trust society! (hold the phone!) Honey, humans are durable beasts! We flipping survived an ice age without metal! The one thing we can rely on, the one constant, when addressing something so vague as human nature, is that when an environment throws up constraints, we survive. Society/humans/not government is the only thing I trust to actually yield a solution to global warming. Policy is not an ends. Policy is a means, and not very good one at that. (here I go now repeating myself) The solution needs to come from entrepreneurs and buying power. These things move society. Policy is as much an ends to a problem as the levees were for New Orleans.
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