American - Scientist | 1952 -
Carbon is the stuff of life, and it's the stuff of everything used by human society. All of our materials are made of carbon or of substances, such as steel or glass, which are produced through the utilization of carbon.
Robert Zubrin
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There are many elements needed to secure economic growth. Certainly, people must be politically free to innovate, invest, build, and create things, and they must be incentivized to do so by knowing they can keep the rewards for their efforts.
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Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.
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Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.
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The more that energy costs, the less economic activity there can be.
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The policy of the Obama administration is to employ regulatory strangulation to drive up the price of energy. This must be exposed and opposed for what it is: a policy of forced economic contraction.
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Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures.
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As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall.
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What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.
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Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.
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Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.
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Nothing could do more harm to America's national security than a carbon-restricted, depressed economy that would make funding our military impossible.
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