From the The Terrapass Footprint commenting on Eric Pooley and Joe Romm (Environmentalists and economists engage in slap fight while world burns):
This past few weeks has seen a resurgence of a form of self-defeating
economist-bashing that the green blogosphere likes to occasionally
indulge. (To be more precise, greens tend to be bipolar in their
treatment of economists. They love them when economic theory is
congenial to environmental goals, and loathe them at all other times.
Greens also tend to oddly personalize the topic, dividing economists
into “the good ones” and, I suppose, the hell-bound.)
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economists would be useful allies on climate change if advocates can manage to stop garbling the message. It’s fine to blame the “major media” for messing this story up, but who is trying to help them get the story right? The next big climate debate is going to be over costs — who pays, and how much. Greens can either engage in that debate with economists by their side, or they can throw stones.
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economists would be useful allies on climate change if advocates can manage to stop garbling the message. It’s fine to blame the “major media” for messing this story up, but who is trying to help them get the story right? The next big climate debate is going to be over costs — who pays, and how much. Greens can either engage in that debate with economists by their side, or they can throw stones.
Note to environmentalists: Get off my freakin' case ... the terrablog says so!
