…Holden’s proposed cures to warming are, well, interesting. In that Harvard speech last November, he presented a “top 10” list of options. No. 1 was “limiting population,” as if man was a plague upon the Earth, a major tenet of green dogma.

Never mind that with more bodies come more minds and more ideas for cleaner and more efficient technology. He does not say how we would do that. Adopt China’s one-child policy perhaps?

Second on his list was reducing per capita GDP. Holden’s long term goal is “equal per-capita emissions rights,” meaning that a country may only emit an amount of carbon commensurate to the number of its persons, not on the basis of its production.

For example, the U.S. would be allowed to release only about 20 times as much carbon as Ecuador, although the U.S. produces 144 times the goods and services.

Interestingly, he puts nuclear power at No. 7, calling it a risky waste-producing option that includes the danger of proliferation. Never mind that here and around the world nuclear power has reduced the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by billions of tons. France gets 80% of its electricity from the atom, recycles its waste, and no one in the City of Lights glows in the dark.

And after the U.S. economy tanks, he says America and the rest of the developed world must pay “the up-front costs, offering assistance to developing countries,” as they move to the new, green economy. This would be a global redistribution of wealth, but we have to spread the green around. …

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So what if it doesn’t make sense?