If “climate change” and “global warming” are, in fact, problems facing people on Planet Earth, it is due to an atmospheric tragedy of the commons.
SCIENCE
Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical (particularly epistemological) base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go. – AYN RAND
The Urban Religion of Recycling
To not recycle would mean challenging the value of saving the planet. If you don’t recycle, then you don’t care about the earth. It’s not a matter of science, logic or facts; it’s a matter of faith.
Suppressing Free Speech To Promote The Environmental Cult’s Agenda
I receive loads of mail in response to my weekly nationally syndicated column. Some recent mail has been quite disturbing. Here's a sample: "Given your support of freedom on a great many issues, I wish to bring to your attention the following George Mason University...
Governed by Zealots
Propaganda is what the NRDC produces. It shouldn’t be the basis for EPA policy. These days, too often, it is — because activists and regulators collude.
The Pope Adopts The Religion of Environmentalism
What does it tell you about environmentalism that it needs the Pope to prop up its campaign against capitalism and human achievement on earth?
The Anti-Science Left
Humans thrive by improving technology, not abandoning it.
Blackfish’s “Green” Lies About SeaWorld
It’s hard to think rationally when animals tug at our heartstrings.
Kudos to Exxon CEO for Not Appeasing Climate Doomsdayers
The Exxon CEO is a rare exception, with the courage to defend his company’s moral right to pursue its own interest: profitable production of fossil fuels.
Net Neutrality Is Turning the Internet into a Government Utility
The great crime of government regulation is that it suffocates and prevents good and great things from happening, things that we’ll never know about — because they never get a chance to happen.
The Lights of Times Square are a Beautiful Thing
There’s a lot more at stake in Times Square than the lights.
Environmentalists Spoil The Planet For Human Beings
Environmentalism is, at its core, a religious fanaticism against technology, industry and progress.
Environmentalism’s Opposition To Human Flourishing
What the religion of environmentalism really opposes is man’s nature, i.e., the fact that man must reshape the earth in order to survive.
The New Inquisition (Against Scientists Who Disagree With The State)
The idea that you can tell whether a scientist — or anybody else — is “objective” by who is financing that scientist’s research is nonsense.
Nobody’s Perfect
Just as religious altruism pits man’s fundamental nature against him by demanding he be a self-sacrificial animal for God, so environmentalist altruism pits man’s fundamental nature against him by demanding he be a self-sacrificial animal for Earth.
Catastrophic Global Warming: Debate is Only Settled For Fanatics
Climate change predictions have been wrong for decades because they are not based on science but on government sponsored “research.”
Say Good Night, Internet
The federal government cannot stand the idea that the Internet economy was a successful instance of (in today’s context) relatively unhampered market capitalism.
Stormy Weather and Politics
The ultimate test of any theoretical model is not how loudly it is proclaimed but how well it fits the facts.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels by Alex Epstein
Based on meticulous research and backed up with solid facts, Epstein makes the case that fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—have tremendous positive impact on human life.
Fossil Fuels Contribute to a Better Life
Alex Epstein’s book “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” documents the rapidly shrinking number of human beings killed by storms, floods and other climate events thanks largely to ever-growing industry, fueled mainly by oil, natural gas and coal.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Video)
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.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Environmentalists like Naomi Klein are intentionally unclear and misleading about the fossil fuel industry and capitalism, because it serves their purpose of taking away our freedom to live our lives and run our businesses the way we choose.
The Environmental Protection Agency and Other Green Monsters
Instead of environmental regulations that actually save lives, we pay to subsidize politicians’ cronies and pet projects,
End “Hegemonic Capitalism” to Solve Human-Caused Climate Change?
What the environmentalists are advocating—ending freedom via a socialist dictatorship—is a sure path to environmental disasters and human misery.
Energy Companies and The Nobility of the Profit Motive
The view that the profit motive is evil and the undefinable goals of “corporate social responsibility” and “environmental sustainability” are noble is the reverse of the truth.
Greenpeace’s Campaign Against Human Flourishing
It is Greenpeace that we should watch and call out on, exposing its propaganda and plans to destroy human well-being. It is companies like Shell and Lego that we should defend and thank for providing us not only necessities of life but products that make our lives more comfortable and enjoyable.
Corporate Money and Medical Research: Markets Do Not Taint Science
Markets do not automatically taint science. As with every other service the market provides, it is the anti-capitalist attitude that does more harm.
Independent “Heretical” Thinking vs. The Dogma of “Settled Science”
Instead of shutting down independent thinking on university campuses and elsewhere, we should defend freedom of thought and expression wherever we can.
GMO’s: Eat Without Fear
Rising generations will have more food options than ever before. They face less risk of starvation or disease than any humans who have ever lived. Let’s give them science instead of scare stories.
Earth Daze
This Earth Day, instead of attacking those who sell fossil fuels, I will applaud them for overcoming constant environmental hysteria — while providing affordable energy that will allow us to fight poverty, which is the real threat to the people of the world.
Neil Young’s Immoral Attack on Oil Sands
It is about time the oil companies take the high moral ground and tell the world what a crucial value oil and other fossil fuels are to us.
Chill Out Over Global Warming
So let’s chill out about global warming. We don’t need more micromanagement from government. We need less.
Our Fragile Planet
With the decline of the USSR, communism has lost considerable respectability and is now repackaged as environmentalism and progressivism.