All Posts Tagged With: "air quality"
Does Light Rail Worsen Congestion and Air Quality?
Growth in traffic has outpaced growth in population ever since the automobile went into mass production. This puts great demands on our transportation infrastructure. Trying to keep up with growing traffic by building more roadway capacity is a daunting task, particularly in urban regions. There are limits to how many lanes of roadway can be [...]
1Jun2005 | John Semmens | 3 comments | ContinuedHow Government Prevents Us from Buying Safety
There is a limit to how much people will voluntarily pay to reduce the risk of accidental injury or death. In other words, the marginal value people place on their lives is finite. We accept some risks to take advantage of opportunities to do things that, at the margin, provide more value than the expected sacrifice in health and life expectancy.
1Dec2000 | Dwight R. Lee | 1 comment | ContinuedClearing the Air: The Real Story of the War on Air Pollution
From the mid-1960s on into the early 1980s, it seemed obvious: Were it not for the benevolent protection provided by the federal government, America’s smoke-filled cities and slime-ridden rivers would have become environmental wastelands. The caves were beckoning. Somehow simultaneously struck dumb, citizens by the millions happily traded the last smidgen of clean air for [...]
1Oct2000 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Commons: Tragedy or Triumph?
In the summer I watch ruby-throated hummingbirds fly and hover near a feeder that my wife, Dot, carefully fills with nectar and hangs in view of our kitchen window. The store-bought nectar is colored red, since people think that hummingbirds find that color attractive. Business around the feeder picks up following rains that wash away [...]
1Apr1999 | Bruce Yandle | 9 comments | ContinuedThe True State of the Planet
Mr. Carolan is Executive Editor of National Review. Those who have studied logic or critical thinking are probably familiar with the informal fallacy of the “false dilemma,” a kind of pseudo-argument in which a speaker pushes you into agreeing with him, or accepting an unwanted alternative. For example: if we don’t raise taxes to save [...]
1Jan1996 | Matthew Carolan | 0 comments | Continued-
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