Bill Kristol on economy, the Left, and climate change

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Bill Kristol on economy, the Left, and climate change

27 May 2010

Prominent US neoconservative politician Bill Kristol asserts that the ideal of the Left is a false ideal and is inherently unattainable. The conservative view he holds is that economic changes do not change life so much with regard to the Left’s post-national, post-religious, post-constraint ideals. He purports a ‘sensible’ conservationist view regarding the environment but questions the conclusion that climate change stemming from the pursuit of economic growth is necessarily damaging for man, citing the improvement in London’s pollution over the last 200 years as an example. He concludes by stating that of course there are issues regarding this trade off that need international cooperation, but objects to the illogical jump that the climate change movement make from these to giving up national sovereignty to unelected bodies.