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Iain Murray: The Really Inconvenient Truths

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Iain Murray on Food, Biofuels, and the Rising Breadline

02 min 47 sec

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Iain Murray, Senior Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, argues that rising food prices may be due to biofuel production.

Basic staples such as rice, wheat, and corn have skyrocketed in price, straining household budgets, "endangering survival" and sinking poor people below the "breadline."
Iain Murray Credits Environmentalists for Raging Fires

05 min 30 sec

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Iain Murray, Senior Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, attributes the increasing amount of uncontrolled forest fires to "well-meaning but foolish" liberal policy.

Bureaucratic collectivism, Murray says, contributed to the catastrophe of overgrown forests, unburned fuel, and raging fires.
The Conservative Approach to Tackle Global Warming

04 min 21 sec

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Iain Murray, Senior Fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, outlines his three step strategy to address global warming that he calls the conservative approach.

Murray advocates reducing regulation and repealing ethanol program as part of this approach.
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Posted: 09.13.09, 05:40 PM

Wonderful presentation of highlights from his book. Best point made by audience member who pointed out that we need a system of following up on results of legislation. Instead we pass legislation and blindly continue it to sometimes disastrous results. Then, instead of adjusting or reversing said legislation, we tackle the "new" problems as though they had nothing to do with the prior legislation. Enough of that nonsense! The point is not to say that all environmental legislation is wrong/bad, but to say that continuing all legislation indefinitely sometimes causes disasters that can be worse than the problem they were intended to solve. If we continue all legislation whether the results are useful or counterproductive, then we are wasting a lot of money and effort on mistakes which could be corrected and potentially benefit from. Keep up the great work Iain Murray!!!!!