All Posts Tagged With: "Bill McKibben"
Cool on the Idea of Cooling Global Warming
Donald Boudreaux is chairman of the economics department at George Mason University. Here’s some self-promotion: the December 21, 2006, issue of The New York Review of Books published this letter of mine—a letter saturated with the obvious influence of FEE’s founder, Leonard Read: I’ve read few passages in your pages that are as mistaken as Bill [...]
1Apr2007 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 3 comments | ContinuedIt Just Ain’t So!
Since ancient times people have been fretting about overcrowding the earth. In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus was already a latecomer to the alarmist message that mankind would breed itself into extinction. He was far from the first Malthusian. (It’s widely unappreciated that Malthus revised later editions of his Essay on the Principle of Population because [...]
1Nov1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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