Policy recommendations emanating from the environmentalist movement must be summarily rejected unless and until they can be validated on the basis of a pro-man, pro-wealth, pro-capitalist standard of value.
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Environmentalism’s Swan Song: Destroy Capitalism To Save The Planet
Environmentalism thus stands a very strong chance of ultimately reverting to the more traditional socialism of massive government construction and engineering projects.
The Green Business Racket
While a normal business seeks to add amenities to its offerings, a so-called Green Business seeks to subtract them, by means of pursuing a deliberate policy of corner cutting.
An Inconvenient Truth: An Inaccurate Depiction of the State of Global Warming Science
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" opened around the country earlier this year. In the film Gore pulls together evidence from every corner of the globe to convince us that climate change is happening fast, we are to blame, and if we don't act immediately, our Earth...
Global Warming Scares Heat Up
To understand the whole global warming debate you have to understand that it is not about any dramatic warming of the Earth. The Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age with time out for some mini-Ice Age episodes. As Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P....
Silencing Opposition to Greens on Global Warming
The petition I have referred to has no financial support from Exxon or any other company in the oil, coal, or natural gas industries. Can the same thing be said about governmental support of The Royal Society and the endless “studies” dedicated to advancing the Green agenda?
Betting California
In a move reminiscent of television’s popular “World Poker Tour,” in which a player announces that he is “all in,” their new law mandates that by the year 2020, California will emit 25 percent less carbon dioxide than it now does.
Reject Environmentalism, Not DDT
The WHO’s support for DDT use is an encouraging step toward stopping this global health catastrophe. But even more important is to reject the environmental ideology on which opposition to DDT is based.
Environmentalist Gridlock
Each of these hours spent in traffic is time not used as each individual sees fit to spend it.
Mining for the Next Million Years
Our growing problems in connection with the supply of natural resources are not caused by nature but by us.
Free-Market Science vs. Government Science
Serious scientists are concerned with the pursuit of science, not the politics of science.
Truly Disgusting: Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 1999
The House of Representatives voted 245 to 159 to pass the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 1999. Because of a rule requiring two-thirds approval, the measure didn't pass. Its sponsor, Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., plans to introduce it again when only a majority is needed...
Environmentalism Raises Profits at the Expense of Wages
Environmentalism is a movement dedicated to the undoing of the Industrial Revolution. If not checked, one of its results will be the progressive reduction of wages and the further elevation of profit incomes based on the ownership of land and natural resources.
Running Out of Oil
"Proven" oil reserves, oil that's economically and technologically recoverable, are estimated to be more than 1.1 trillion barrels. That's enough oil, at current usage rates, to fuel the world's economy for 38 years, according to Leonardo Maugeri, vice president for...
Keep Our “Addiction” to Oil, End Our Allergy to Self-Assertion
Politicians and commentators from both parties are decrying our "addiction to oil." They exhort us to embrace costly programs to reduce our consumption of oil as quickly as possible. The primary rationale for this is national security. Our oil consumption is dangerous...
Gasoline Rationing via “Tradeable Gasoline Rights”
Gasoline Rationing Scheme but Economic Freedom Will Improve the Environment and Promote National Security
Gasoline at 10 Cents a Gallon and Falling
Does gasoline at 10 cents a gallon and falling sound impossible in today’s world?
“Price Gouging” and The Price of Oil
Since 1976, because of environmental regulations, not a single additional oil refinery has been constructed in the United States.
Oily Politicians II: Politicians Play on Consumer Ignorance of Economics
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work. If vast new iron ore deposits are discovered tomorrow in Timbuktu, 99 percent of the people on this planet may be wholly unaware of it -- and...
Oily Politicians I: Oil Prices Rise as Oil Drilling is Restricted By Politicians
If there is anything worse than partisan demagoguery, it is bipartisan demagoguery. Republican leaders have now joined the Democrats in blaming the oil companies for the fact that prices rise when demand expands more than supply. Prices have been rising under these...
Open Kyoto to Debate
Kudos to the 60 scientists for criticizing the Kyoto Protocol as politicized science and calling for a public debate on climate science. Kyoto was a humongous fraud from its inception when power-hungry United Nations bureaucrats maliciously altered the conclusion of...
Different Flag, Different Lyrics, But the Same Old Tune
Pointing guns at people in the name of some higher collective good, and prohibiting them from achieving their own good. That’s socialism. That’s environmentalism.
Collectivism, Climate Change, and Economic Freedom
The question of how to deal with climate change, in turn, is subsumed by the broader question of how should human beings deal with physical reality in meeting their needs and wants.
Environmentalists Are Trying to Frighten the Natives
An unjustified death-penalty verdict against modern Industrial Civilization and most of the human race.
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