> Bureaucrats eradicated polio and smallpox, invented the internet, space travel, GPS – and actually almost anything important you could think of (if you include public universities and publicly-funded research)

I don't think anyone in their right mind would call the purchase of technology from privately funded research at a public university (Polio) to count as bureaucrats innovating, nor would I say that bureaucrats did any of those things, with the exception of space travel which was indeed fully done in-house by NASA.

The real innovation that government could bring to environmental issues is consumption-based pollution taxes instead of convoluted, mis-incentivizing mandates like Obama's call for each auto company to each produce one 54 MPG car by 2025.

Tesla wouldn't need the bureaucrats if we had a fair, simple, liberty-maximizing set of environmental regulations.