What a delightful coincidence! Thanks, Robert, for the skewering of FTX and the seductive glamor of vast wealth. The day before Giving Tuesday, I read on the op-ed page of my newspaper an essay by Marc A. Thiessen, who said "Climate reparations are insanity" because poor nations will do better building general well-being through the use …
What a delightful coincidence! Thanks, Robert, for the skewering of FTX and the seductive glamor of vast wealth. The day before Giving Tuesday, I read on the op-ed page of my newspaper an essay by Marc A. Thiessen, who said "Climate reparations are insanity" because poor nations will do better building general well-being through the use of fossil fuels than with green energy. Mr. Thiessen is a libertarian who appears to wish better lives for the world's poor, but in his essay he argues that fossil fuels are essential to prosperity, resilience and longevity. I say that fossil fuels have made many rich but have impoverished countless more and have destroyed and sickened much of our world.
We also should not forget the "resource curse", the distortion caused by having a pile of resources in your country which inevitably flow upwards and not outwards to the citizens of a country. The crazed rule of Turkmenistan's Niyazov is a wonderful case study in how far off the rails a country can stray.
What a delightful coincidence! Thanks, Robert, for the skewering of FTX and the seductive glamor of vast wealth. The day before Giving Tuesday, I read on the op-ed page of my newspaper an essay by Marc A. Thiessen, who said "Climate reparations are insanity" because poor nations will do better building general well-being through the use of fossil fuels than with green energy. Mr. Thiessen is a libertarian who appears to wish better lives for the world's poor, but in his essay he argues that fossil fuels are essential to prosperity, resilience and longevity. I say that fossil fuels have made many rich but have impoverished countless more and have destroyed and sickened much of our world.
We also should not forget the "resource curse", the distortion caused by having a pile of resources in your country which inevitably flow upwards and not outwards to the citizens of a country. The crazed rule of Turkmenistan's Niyazov is a wonderful case study in how far off the rails a country can stray.
That is a great point! (A country like Nigeria would be an egalitarian paradise were fossil fuels all that were needed for prosperity!)