And that would not be terribly difficult to do. We use fossil fuels so very inefficiently that we could cut our greenhouse gases drastically without affecting our standard of living. Adopting energy efficiency measures would not only reduce global warming, it would save money to spend on better things than wasted fuel. This is a fundamental principle of the free market. This means that a producer of a product should pay all of the costs of its production, and include them in its price, which the customer then pays.
Pollution is a prime example.
If a factory does not properly process its wastes but dumps them into the air or into a river, it saves some money, but all people downwind or downstream suffer. Respect True Property Rights and Individual Freedom Pollution invades the property rights of all of its victims. And it infringes on their freedom by imposing costs on them that they should not have to pay. In other words, if the conservative principles of the free market, property rights, and individual freedom had been followed, most of our air and water pollution would never have been permitted in the first place. We often hear objections to the costs of pollution control regulations the government has enacted.