Advocating for economic freedom and free enterprise to improve human and environmental conditions, Nick Loris’ policy paper explains how innovation and competition can help solve climate change’s most difficult challenges. Rather than harmful regulations and excessive spending proposals like the Green New Deal, Loris outlines how capitalism is not the problem, but the solution.
The paper, “Free Economies are Clean Economies,” examines the correlation between economic freedom, limited government, open markets, private property rights, and environmental performance around the world. The paper was published by C3 Solutions, a nonprofit group that advocates for economic growth and a healthy environment.
Loris’ primary findings are noteworthy:
Free economies are twice as clean as unfree economies;
Trade freedom nearly doubles a nation’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI), and;
Countries that protect individual property rights see increased treatment for the environment and less deforestation.
Loris argues that harnessing the power of individual liberty and competition are powerful forces in the drive to address environmental challenges
Read more about how free-market approaches can yield a cleaner economy at C3Solutions.org. And check out the C3 news magazine while you’re at it.