@coffee I move the socialism topic here.
I think climate change is a difficulty for free-market theorists, it is a big new horse on which to ride for communists and socialists.
After the poor working class (they killed by millions), after the poor minorities (they destroyed inner cities and banlieues), now poor Nature. If we follow communist and socialist plans on economy at a global scale, literally billions of people will die, and it will not save Nature, because it is in undeveloped economies where pollution and destruction of nature is the most serious.
I don’t buy in the way this sentence is worded.
That big companies pay scientists to protect their interests, this is a fact, and the examples are extremely numerous, apparently especially in the US, where there is kind of a free-market, at least more than in France.
But the Cato Institute is another thing, they develop and intellectual framework, you cannot confuse everything.