Toward a pro-growth environmental policy

We can deal with these issues without a sense of panic. If we panic, we do things which create other problems which may be worse than the original. Poverty is the real crisis in the world and environmentalist solutions will create more of it. It is nice for the rich Europeans and Americans to worry about such things while people suffer in the 10/40 window from their policies. Environmentalism is the new colonialism. It does not have to be that way.

A sound sustainable ecology benefits all of us. We can have a clean ecology and a growing economy with protections for property rights.

Here are my top ten economically sound environmental solutions.
10. More Nuclear power -- clean air and cheap power (no net CO2 either)--put the waste back in secure locations in the ground like the site in Nevada.

9. Make it a national energy priority to find the better battery. The biggest problem with solar, hydro, and wind power is that we can not store huge amount of electricity for long.

8. Zealously guard our water supply. Give foreign aid credits to poorer countries which must be redeemed for clean water programs. It would save more lives and increase productivity more than anything.

7. Tie a portion of Farm Aid to sound environmental practices such as run off prevention.

6.Give Investment tax credits for green R & D programs and exempt them from AMT.

5.Include a basic environmental protocol in any trade agreement, for replenishing trees, clean water infrastructure, scrubbers.

4.Biofuels--mandate all new cares to be duel burning and give tax credits if for factories retooled in America --regardless of manufacturer.

3.The next generation of infrastructure should include more mass transit. We subsidize roads why not tracks.

2. Encourage Energy Smart homes with interest rate credits.

1. Push develop of clean trash to steam. Slow down the landfill crisis and generate cheap energy.

Have we found a sensible middle ground here?