From: Competitive Enterprise Institute

By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.

June 11, 2019

A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change

Climate change is not a hoax, but as a political matter, it is a persistent pretext for expanding government control over the economy, redistributing wealth, and empowering unaccountable elites at the expense of voters and their elected representatives. This pretext rests on three falsehoods:

1. Science has determined that climate change is a “planetary emergency”—a rapidly unfolding global catastrophe.
2. A panoply of market-rigging interventionist policies, called “climate solutions” by their proponents, can deliver meaningful climate protection at reasonable cost.
3. Only deluded science deniers or greedy polluters oppose such policies.

A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change