Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Against a rising tide of green calls for an environmental dictatorship, its refreshing to read that some greens think ordinary people should have the right to choose their own future.
Democracy Is the Answer to Climate Change
Contrary to popular belief, elected leaders are better equipped to address the problem than their autocratic rivals.
The Paris agreement of December 2015 raised new hopes that the worst effects of climate change might yet be averted. This agreement, whose signatories have agreed to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a voluntary basis, marks the first major international pact to combat climate change since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. In contrast to Kyoto, however, whose signatories accounted for only about 14 percent of global emissions, the countries that signed the Paris deal account for a whopping 96 percent.
Of course, the outstanding question is whether the agreement will actually…
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