The Public Policy
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Few understood the Green Scam quite so well or so early as the late Warren Brookes did.
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argued in a paper
on the eve of his passing, “regulatory
overkill is very likely to give us a worse environment, as well as
a worse economy, because the effect of that regulatory overkill
will be to slow this nation’s advance along the technological
learning curve, a curve that I maintain is bright green.” In an
earlier column, Brookes warned of Americans “being led in part by a
dangerously shallow media to engage in the reckless regulatory
pursuit of zero risk, and a flat-earth assault on science and
technology” and a nation “more willing than ever to give up big
benefits to control either imaginary or infinitesimal risks.”
“Just as the toddler on a tether is safer than the child running free,” Brookes continued, “a risk-free society is one on a very tight leash.”
These days, the nation seems to be half-heartedly dodging a collar two sizes too small which nanny staters in green aprons seem all too intent on cramming over our collective head. Then again, without The Economy in Mind and Brookes’s prodigious columns, perhaps we’d already be wearing it. It’s impossible to tell. One thing is certain, however: We are in desperate need of another indefatigable visionary like Warren Brookes today.
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Shawn Macomber is a contributing editor to The American Spectator.
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