PERC (a.k.a. the Property and Environment Research Center), a 30-year-old think-tank advocate of market solutions to environmental problems, has just unveiled its new blog, The PERColator. Expect an interesting take on many issues – federal land use, water rights, eminent domain, national park access – that reflect PERC’s rugged individualist perspective from its home in Bozeman, Montana. One modest gripe: PERColator’s reluctance (or, at least the reluctance of one of its senior fellows, H. Spencer Banzhaf) to acknowledge that man-made climate change is a clear and present danger, even as he (admirably) defends the use of a market-based cap-and-trade fix if it were happening.
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Thirty Years Young and Counting |
Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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