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actually, whether the planet is warming and why is a factual/scientific question. It is only when you decide to have the government act to stop or reverse it that you get into statism. Hard to see where I am a statist though, if I am saying that it is going to be the market that settles this when oil gets more expensive.
Even so, you could certainly argue that my wish for the govt. to jump start research on alternate energy is statist. But you can bet that even if the civilian govt. isnt preparing contingencies for a sudden need to go to alternate energy sources, the military sure is. They know enough not to leave it to the market to formulate a contingency plan for what to do if some wacko sinks a tanker in the Straits of Hormuz. We might want to try to emulate this kind of foresight. It might be good insurance.
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