If you like your air conditioner, can you keep it?

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Harry Brennan, on June 24, 2026, asked in the U.K. Telegraph, “Have you been ordered to remove your air conditioning unit? Write to [email protected].”

The Telegraph is looking into over-zealous net zero inspectors’ punitive actions as a killing hit wave becomes yet another crisis for Europe’s peoples, which is yet another example of Hayek’s WWII warning that fascism will come to England not by war but from English bureaucrats saying they are helping their fellows. Ronald Reagan paraphrased it as the most frightening words we don’t want to ever hear, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

The best recent summary of the evolution of toxic government intervention can be found in Amity Shlaes’s Great Society: A New History. Shlaes points out that LBJ’s Great Society created the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) which produced with taxpayers’ money a 262-page “Community Action Program Workbook” that included this goal: to develop “increased competence in protest actions.”

The book concludes with the tragic history of Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing slum clearance that expensively built a set of poorly designed multi-floor apartments that had to be torn down in failure. How much has been spent and quickly lost to poorly “scienced” climate change hysteria? And in the current case of Europe, that cost is being measured in human life — the death toll is reportedly around 1,300 so far.

When will the world accept that our survival requires the use of natural resources and technology? Misallocate or criminalize ... at our peril.

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