The Carbon-Benefit Deniers

The Carbon-Benefit Deniers | National Review Online

Since 1950, humanity has utilized a great deal of carbon. 

Simultaneously, three major changes have occurred worldwide:

1. The standard of living, as measured by average global GDP per capita, has increased by 400 percent.
2. The rate of plant growth on Earth has increased by 15 percent.
3. The average global temperature has increased by 0.2 percent.

It is a measure of the mental and moral dementia of the current anti-carbon crusade that it has spent billions of dollars promoting alarm over the last point on the above list, while ignoring or denying the profound benefits of the first two. 

“The science is clear,” they solemnly intone. 

“The widespread use of fossil fuels is causing global warming.”