Remember Karl Rove? I watched him on a TV discussion round table over the weekend. He may not go down in history as the wisest, but I appreciated his comments and they seemed relevant to the discussion of regulation vs. volunteerism.
Rove told a Fox News panel on Sunday that the recent climate treaty negotiated in Paris was “B.S.” because it called for slowing the increase in carbon omissions to net zero between 2050 and 2080.
“We’ll all be dead and very few people sitting in Paris will be alive at that point, I suspect, when we get to 2080,” he opined. “The United States has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions. It has done so, not because some international treaty, we have put the focus on energy efficiency, we’re a market economy, we’re a wealthy country that can afford to do this. And we have done it.”
Edited to add, I don't necessarily agree with him, but he has an interesting perspective and it's surprising to find a conservative or "neocon" acknowledging how serious the problem might be.
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