world turned upside down

Corporations are demanding regulation and the government is refusing to give it to them, says George Monbiot about solutions for global warming.

Any firm which wants to develop the new technologies wants tough new rules. It is regulation that creates the market.

So why won’t the government act? Because it is siding with the dirty companies against the clean ones. Deregulation has become the test of its manhood: the sign that it has put the bad old days of economic planning behind it.

Filed in nature and environment | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 | Permalink |

Comments (3)

  1. Cowtown Pattie wrote::

    Seems our government is better at fiddle lessons…

    Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 10:38 am #
  2. Miguel wrote::

    Hi Bill, I’m not sure whereabouts you are in Texas, but I just wanted to check in and make sure you are all right because of the coming hurricane. I hope everything just passes by and that you will be safe.

    Please take care.

    Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 2:46 am #
  3. Shelley wrote::

    That’s me, too. Just checking to make sure you all are out of the flood zone. Hope all is well.

    Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 11:45 am #