Sunday, March 2, 2008

Global Warming, Czech Republic and Vaclav Klaus

Vaclav Klaus has somewhat extreme opinions about global warming - he says it does not exist, and if it it did exist, it would be best solved by "free markets." Especially the second part is quite popular in Czech Republic, despite trivial number of Chicago Economics Department graduates is trivial. The reason is that many former "Marxists" simply substituted one ideology for another and thanks to VK they have a big say.
In some sense, one always feel good about dissenting voice - it suggests that we are indeed looking for truth, that all facts are being considered. Global warming issue is especially problematic - nobody knows how much of it is caused by humans, how fast it will progress and how costly it will be (both in damages and preventive costs).
Yet, VK does not reach level of Bjørn Lomborg. In fact, he does not reach any (positive) level - he does not bother with data, facts, observations, he just repeats the mantra "free market will solve everything" and that regulation of pollution is worse than communism (no kidding). Moreover, he likes to create an impression that he is known in the world for this opinion, while in fact, he is not. Brilliant article by Jiri Zlatuska (former rector of my alma mater - Masaryk University in Brno, senator,...) shows that the emperor is naked. Why does it have to be our emperor?

P.S. Czech Republic is small, beautiful but unimportant country, so we will not be any significant obstacle on the difficult road to first attempts to tackle the global warming on the international level. Thank God.

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