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If we adopted broken windows as a policy (rather than a one-off surprise event), you'd be creating jobs making an entirely different set of products that the market wasn't creating before: unbreakable windows, windowless buildings and wall hangings of the outdoors (to make windowless buildings less depressing).

So your argument (if valid) would seem to support equally well an economic benefit from a broken windows policy.

It's possible that a carbon tax might stave off a future disaster, but that's vastly different from creating "the biggest economic boom in US history". That's nonsense. A carbon tax will harm our economy, though perhaps not as much as the predicted disaster to come.

Similarly, a "no dumping garbage" law would also not create an economic boom, even if it is less harmful than garbage filled parks.