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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Climate Change As Malthusian Panic Attack. ?My guess is that Malthusian panic?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Climate Change As Malthusian Panic Attack. “My guess is that Malthusian panics are part of humanity?s coping mechanism. The problems to which Malthusians point are almost always real problems, but the solutions they advocate are usually not the way out. Malthusians classically go for big interventionist fixes, when humanity?s most efficient method of solving problems is to nibble them to death rather than swallow them whole. Billions of people change their behavior; innovators perceive the economic rewards of addressing a growing problem and little by little, bite by bite, we nibble the problem down to size. In its lunge for the grand global solution, the climate change movement was making the classic Malthusian mistake.” Yeah, but the problem with the bite-by-bite, Army of Davids approach is that it’s not a good source of power for politicians.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).