The Last Optimist

The Last Optimist is hosted by Mark P. Mills—author, businessman, physicist, contributing editor to the City Journal, and distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation—and features discussions about inventing our future. Mark's latest book is “The Cloud Revolution: How The Convergence of Emerging Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s.
Truthful Analysis of the Greenwashing of America
05/15/2024
What a wonderful resource of honest analysis and discussion of the green boondoggles being foisted on Americans by their politicians. Both sides are guilty of participating in the graft. Please add more content soon. This podcast is one of the best out there.
Carbon Tax and AI
01/19/2024
I wish the leaders in the world would listen to these podcasts. Finally someone is speaking up about the nonsense Western Politicians and so called environmental groups (do more damage that good) are pushing on their people.
Data and insights into the future
11/22/2023
Data and facts come to life, helping listeners gain insights into the trends shaping the future.
Tom Behlmer
01/08/2024
I found the episode about carbon tax intellectually dishonest at best or outright misleading. For example, the author states that fossil fuel use has increased since the year 2000 despite a push for renewables. Of course it has grown in absolute terms because economies have grown particularly in China plus there are more people in the world. Don’t conflate a bigger world economy with a perceived futility of deploying renewables. Another point was that the price of oil doubled since 2000. His point is it would take a huge increase in oil price via a carbon tax to reduce demand and the size of the tax needed would wreck the economy. He is leaving out inflation. Adjusted for inflation oil has not doubled in price. I wonder if the Manhattan Institute, which the author belongs to, received money from Exxon or other oil companies to peddle their propaganda.
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- CreatorThe Manhattan Institute
- Years Active2022 - 2024
- Episodes53
- RatingClean
- Copyright© The Manhattan Institute
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