FREEDOM REDUCES PER CAPITA GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

This article seeks to analyze five developing and transition economies to see how they compare in terms of freedom and emissions profiles. All the countries which include China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa have freedom indices at the low to mid-range of economic freedom, Russia the least free of these countries and South Africa the most free. The implications from the analysis are significant. Of course, free nations produce more of everything consumers want, and total emissions may rise if repressed countries became free, but there is no doubt that the world will be richer and more able to adapt to any dangers from the climate if it changes dangerously.