Soon, some of you will try to make “better babies.” Already, people pay labs to examine embryos so they can pick ones with DNA they like. Some screen for gender or eye color. Some screen out certain diseases. So far, they’ve been limited to selecting...
In this full episode of “Exploring Minds”, Michele Carroll and Alex Epstein explore his reasons behind writing “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. Alex breaks down the importance of energy, our current options available to use for energy, and...
If the oil companies want to take the moral high ground, they must first acknowledge, not just the negative effects of their product, but also its enormous benefits to humans.
Our economy depends on the continued forward march of technological progress. But with this growth come new problems and, inevitably, new regulation. We must ensure that this regulation does not stifle tomorrow’s innovations, whose details we cannot predict in...
The Green New Deal’s goal is to move America to zero carbon emissions in 10 years.
House Resolution 109 “Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal,” has a long list of sponsoring congresspersons who seem to be not much different from that child in the toy store.
Carbon taxes are nonobjective, they are coercive, and they are impediments to prosperity.
The core idea of the Green New Deal, endorsed by virtually every Democratic Presidential candidate, is that the government should rapidly outlaw fossil fuel power and rapidly replace it with renewable power, mostly from solar and wind. This would be the most radical...
To make earth cleaner, greener and safer, which energy sources should humanity rely on?
What today’s academics write, and what journals treat as neutral science, tends to reinforce only one side of the political spectrum.
A Response to Elizabeth Warren’s Fascist Plan To Break Up Successful Tech Companies
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”
The New York Times and the scientists it cites in “U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy” (11/23/18), either do not understand simple mathematics, or rely on the ignorance of their readers to create a silly scaremongering headline over...
The values the oil companies provide far outweigh negative consequences of fossil fuel production.
The New York Times and the scientists it cites in “U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy”, either do not understand simple mathematics, or rely on the ignorance of their readers to create a silly scaremongering headline over an absur…
A carbon tax with a realistic possibility of being signed into law, would not be the revenue-neutral, regulation-busting efficient solution that libertarian and conservative tax advocates desire. The political forces on the left want no part of an even nominally market-…
The human mind is the ultimate resource because it, and only it, creates all of the other economically valuable inputs that we call “resources.”
When social media platforms only pick certain politically disfavored positions to add Wiki links to, they skew debate.
In performing cost-benefit analyses our government has a responsibility to present the fullest view to the public that is possible. In the context of climate change, that means exploring the social cost of carbon at a wide range of discount rates, on a diversity of time…
I’m glad Twitter purges robots and Facebook bans posts that call for direct violence (that’s illegal, after all). But I worry when big media companies start policing content.
Taking taxpayers’ money and allocating it to fighting climate change, the causes of which are complex, is not rational but irrational climate policy.
What is critical, however, in rebutting the proposals is to parse the disparate, inchoate elements from one another, drawing attention to the ever-shifting justifications carbon tax advocates offer.
Regulating public utilities to be “neutral” has led to ever-escalating prices and poor service (think of postal services and roads), due to inefficient operations and the lack of incentives—competition—to lower costs and to improve service.
Why are businesses not gearing up for the post-carbon economy?
“More solar penetration in places like California will lead to an outcome no one wants: a less reliable electricity grid.”
Donald Trump opened himself up to mockery with his “Pittsburgh, not Paris” remark, but the Paris Agreement’s supporters have very little to offer beyond the level of “gotcha” jabs.
Is nature’s inherent dynamism responsible for the climate change of our era? Or are the cause(s) man-made?
The Paris Agreement surrenders our political independence and stifles global energy development that benefits people across the planet.
A carbon tax—by design—will cause energy costs to soar.
“Mankind’s use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous—because human life is the standard of value and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.”
Only by recognizing the moral value of its work, can business stand up and defend itself like Resolute Forest Products has done.
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