Archive for Pierre Desrochers
Regulatory Roadblocks to Turning Waste to Wealth
Pierre Desrochers is a professor of geography at the University of Toronto. The small industrial town of Kalundborg, located 75 miles from Copenhagen, shouldn’t be on the radar screen of most visitors to Denmark. It has nonetheless become something of a Mecca for “sustainable development” theorists the world over. Kalundborg’s main attraction, apart from its [...]
1Sep2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 0 comments | ContinuedPlanned Chaos: Industrial Waste Recycling in Communist Economies
Pierre Desrochers is a research associate at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). Most advocates of “sustainable development” assume that traditional market incentives, such as the price system and private property rights, lead to wasteful and environmentally harmful practices. Not surprisingly, some proponents, such as bestselling authors Paul Hawken, Sim Van Der Ryn, and Stuart Cowan, [...]
1Jul2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Unsustainable Politics of Natural Capitalism
Pierre Desrochers is research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). In their bestseller Natural Capitalism, a book so heartily praised by environmentalists and business executives that its American edition sold out before its publication date, authors Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins indict traditional capitalism as a “financially profitable” but “nonsustainable aberration [...]
1Jun2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 0 comments | ContinuedSaving the Environment for a Profit, Victorian-Style
Pierre Desrochers is research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). In the mind of the 21st-century environmentalist, Victorian cities and towns evoke images of black coal smoke and unsanitary conditions. For most people of the time though, they were one of humanity’s supreme achievements. Not as clean as the countryside, no doubt, but thriving [...]
1May2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 2 comments | ContinuedIs Greed Green?
Pierre Desrochers is research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). Devising prescriptions for “sustainable development” has made the fortune of a number of academics and consultants and provided a new raison d’être for countless bureaucracies. According to these “sustainability experts,” since the dawn of the industrial age the goals of economic growth and enhanced [...]
1Apr2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 1 comment | Continued-
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