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Winter 2022: A Season of Painful Enlightenment?

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Winter 2022: A Season of Painful Enlightenment?
Activists dressed as world leaders sit on a raft in the Forth and Clyde canal during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 9, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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There are times when politics resembles the theater of the absurd. This is one of those times. We just witnessed the spectacle of heads of state gathering in Glasgow trying to find ways to curtail the production and consumption of fossil fuels at the very time when the people they supposedly represent face a grim, potentially lethal winter due to shortages of those vital fuels.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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