Most of us refer to the statement "...the science is settled..." as being a dogmatic statement from environmental activists that anyone, who, for whatever reason, disagrees with the assessment of the environmental Left, that unless we drastically reduce carbon emissions, that we're facing self-imposed destruction...
Good morning! Did you have a nice sleep?
There are a lot of people who have invested in positions of belief, or faith, that remind one of building a castle on the beach at low tide.
As the tide rises, castles fall.
One of the more egregious examples of this "science is settled" is the Keynesian belief that government expenditures increase the national weal.
One needs only ask one, simple question; how do you define the national product?
The National Product. Sometimes referred to as GNP, or GDP, or Gross National Income or Gross Domestic Income, whatever, there are summations of economic activity that attempts to aggregate the economic activity of the nation, in order to determine whether or not we're making more shit, or less shit.
It doesn't matter what the shit is. If people will buy your shit, you're contributing to the national product.
Prollem is, there is only one definitive expression of GDP, NNP (net national product...see? There are more ways economists choose to refer to a nation's productivity!) and that is C + I + G = GDP, or NNP, or Net Domestic Product (another one!) or whatever.
There are either creators of wealth, or leakages of wealth. Private enterprise creates wealth. Government destroys wealth. There are no two ways of it.
The advantage that government has is, government expenditures are helping those who can't help themselves.
Laudatory. Hoo-rah! We are a country were helping those who can't help themselves makes us better as people!
I want to be a better person!
Let's go!
If only we could destroy Farmer Ben. The world would be better for bunnies.
Keynesian economics follows the path of bunny advocates. It's easy to hate Farmer Ben. We can't hate little bunnies. And during the next few weeks, you're going to be hearing a lot about bunnies, Farmer Ben, and how important it is that we help those who need our help, even as our economy continues to falter.
The science is not settled. Or, the science is settled, it's just not what the Left wants you to know.
During the last couple of weeks, those of us who monitor the progress of the Lefty Agenda On Environment know that "the settled Science" is all but gone. Lefties around the globe are agreeing, that the agenda of the Left is more destructive of local economies than thought, and that the assumptions of the Environmental Left, as regards the immediacy of the environmental crisis, were over-stated, and possibly, simply, wrong.
That a movement, with the degree of scrutiny as the Environmental Left is willing, or beginning to be willing, to discard the AlGoreBearManPig view of immediate destruction is heartening. Even radical Lefties will, under pressure, accept that their lies don't work. That there is no utility in adhering to the beliefs advanced by the movement.
That most of their shit is simply shit.
Wait for the economists of the Left to decamp from their current course; increased regulation and the socialisation of medicine will lead to a renaissance of economic activity. Doctors I talk to know that there's a train wreck ahead. Businessmen I talk to know that there's a train wreck ahead. Small business owners are letting full-time employees go. They're hiring part-time employees.
And yet, starting your own business, becoming an entrepreneur, is more difficult now, than at any time in our state's or our nation's history. Going out to ones own garage and building the next mouse trap is criminal in most communities. We don't want innovation.
Oh, sure. We want Government Innovation Councils.
What twat.
When was the last time government innovated? (Godwin's Law.)
The Science is not settled. Science, is never settled. It can't be. Otherwise, it isn't really science.
Keynesian economics has never passed any test
ex posteriori. The data has never suggested that the conclusions of Keynesian economics have ever been actualized. The entire idea of a "multiplier effect" is based upon another economic concept, the
marginal propensity to consume, that most of you have never heard of before. Just because most people have never heard of a thing, doesn't diminish the importance of that thing.
Take "firing pin" as an example.
Most of what is being taught in our public schools falls into the category of popularly accepted beliefs. Nothing of truth. Nothing of science. Nothing of choice. Just normative values, such as investing in solar power is better that investing in petroleum production because solar power is "non-polluting."
Try to make a polymer voltaic film without polluting. Can't be done.
It can be taught.
Just can't be done.
And on that, the science is settled.