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Environmental Wackosim: We Are the Idiots

Walter Williams — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:53 +0000

The next time an environmentalist warns us of a pending disaster or that we are running out of something, we ought to ask: When was the last time a prediction of yours was right?

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The EPA’s RRP Rule isn’t About Safety

Brian Phillips — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:37:56 +0000

I wrote this in May 2010. It remains relevant. On April 22, 2010 an EPA regulation governing renovation, repair, and painting (RRP) took effect. The regulation governs any activity that will disturb paint containing lead and applies to all homes built before 1978 and “child-occupied facilities”. On Wednesday I took the certification course mandated by [...]

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Wealth Creation and Property Rights: Good For the Planet

Jaana Woiceshyn — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:45:31 +0000

Last week, I was writing about the first UN World Happiness Report and how it pits wealth creation and wealth against happiness. I promised to discuss why wealth creation is not only good for people’s happiness but also for the planet. Wealth creation without the right to private property would be much diminished, for the [...]

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The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

Keith Lockitch — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:42:04 +0000

The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Its call for people to renounce energy and to rejoice at darkened skyscrapers makes its real meaning unmistakably clear: Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.

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The “Limits” of Economic Progress

Brian Phillips — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:01:36 +0000

A few weeks ago I caught a portion of a radio program in which a commentator argued that economic progress has limits. He used a hamster as an example: For the first few weeks of his life, a hamster doubles in size each week. If he did this for a year, he would weight nine [...]

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Environmentalism and Psychology: A Marriage Made in Hell

Michael J Hurd — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:03:00 +0000

People who disagree with my political perspective sometimes tell me, “You shouldn’t comment on social or political matters. That’s not appropriate for a mental health professional.” The people who say this are always liberals, and never non-liberals, i.e. never libertarians, Objectivists, conservatives or anything like that. (Proving my point, once again, that most liberals simply [...]

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What The "Green" in the Green Movement Stands For

Michael J Hurd — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:12:00 +0000

The U.N. has proposed that $2 trillion per year be provided to them to ensure the development of “green technologies” over the next 40 years. Failure to let the U.N. do this, according to them, will result in the end of the world as we know it. “Green” technologies refer to renewable sources of energy [...]

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Green Energy Fantasy

Keith Lockitch — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:17:00 +0000

Will a green energy industry be an engine of economic growth? Many want us to think so, including [President Obama]. Apparently a booming green economy with millions of new jobs is just around the corner. All we need is the right mix of government “incentives.” These include a huge (de facto) tax on carbon emissions [...]

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The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

Keith Lockitch — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:29:00 +0000

On Saturday, March 28, cities around the world will turn off their lights to observe “Earth Hour.” Iconic landmarks from the Sydney Opera House to Manhattan’s skyscrapers will be darkened to encourage reduced energy use and signal a commitment to fighting climate change. While a one-hour blackout will admittedly have little effect on carbon emissions, [...]

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Religion Turns Green

Michael J Hurd — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:54:00 +0000

It’s remarkable how you can do more and more things online. Paying bills, for example, can be “paperless.” With the stroke of a few computer keys, you can pay all your bills without the use of mail, paper or pens. The self-consciously “green” love to brag about how they’re going paperless. But what made this [...]

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A Free Market in Water

Brian Phillips — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:03:10 +0000

Houston–where I live–has been under a severe drought. This year, we have received about one-third of our normal rainfall. In response, the city has enacted water rationing and citizens will be fined if they violate the restrictions. At the same time, the city reports that it has about six hundred leaks in water mains, a [...]

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The Danger of Environmentalism

Michael Berliner — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:36:00 +0000

Cartoon Cox and Forkum. Earth Day approaches, and with it a grave danger faces mankind. The danger is not from acid rain, global warming, smog, or the logging of rain forests, as environmentalists would have us believe. The danger to mankind is from environmentalism. The fundamental goal of environmentalism is not clean air and clean [...]

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On April 22, Celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day

Craig Biddle — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:22:00 +0000

Because Earth Day is intended to further the cause of environmentalism—and because environmentalism is an anti-human ideology—on April 22, those who care about human life should not celebrate Earth Day; they should celebrate Exploit-the-Earth Day. Exploiting the Earth—using the raw materials of nature for one’s life-serving purposes—is a basic requirement of human life. Either man [...]

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How Obama Earned The Ignoble Nobel Peace Prize

Edward Cline — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

One searches in vain through the whole list of Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to the present for a single laureate whose work measurably advanced the cause of peace. The term peace itself, as it is employed by the Nobel Committee, on the surface is wishful and ethereal. The Peace Prize has, as a [...]

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The Doomsayers: Are Capitalism and The Earth’s Climate Both Doomed?

Edward Cline — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

President Barack Obama has implied more than once that the current system of “capitalism” is doomed in the face of his intended “reorganization” of American society — oblivious to the fact that full-scale, unregulated capitalism has never existed in this country or anywhere else in the world. “Capitalism” was blamed for the financial debacle of [...]

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Carbon Dioxide Restrictions are Costly, Pointless, Symbolic Gestures

James M. Taylor — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Substantial restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, such as those proposed by President Barack Obama and contained in the Waxman-Markey bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, will force Americans to undergo severe and protracted economic hardship for little or no real-world benefit. Fortunately (or not), you don’t have to take my word for it; President [...]

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Obama’s Cap-and-Trade: Lifeline or Noose?

Alan Bressler — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout his presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged to address the “crisis” of anthropogenic global warming. Since taking office his cabinet appointments and policy initiatives have not disappointed those who believe such a crisis exists and that America should act boldly and decisively on this front. In his February 24 address to the nation, Obama said, [...]

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Global Warming & Climate Change in Perspective: CO2, Scientific Consensus, and Climate Models

William Happer — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Statement to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee by William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University, made on February 25, 2009. Madam Chairman and members, thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee on Environment and Public Works to testify on Climate Change. My name is William Happer, [...]

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Environmentalism vs Creativity

Wayne Dunn — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

For decades environmentalists have cried that man should adopt an “alternative” form of energy. But in this freest country on earth, exactly how have they exercised their liberty to try and make their dream come true? Well, they support like-minded politicians – who’ve invented nothing but obstacles to innovation. They march in protests – that have created [...]

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The Earth is Mankind’s Garden

Nicholas Provenzo — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

If the welfare of human life was the standard by which we judged industry and technology, there would be no reason to have a day like “Earth Day.” Rather than the environmentalists parading their assault on anything and everything that is a mark of human existence on the planet, we would instead celebrate industry and [...]

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