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Can Government Save Us from Manmade Disasters?
Overcoming environmental abuse is not likely to be achieved by governmental dictation.
16Aug2010 | James L. Payne | 7 comments | ContinuedFreedom Is the Environment’s Best Friend
John Semmens is a transportation policy analyst at the Laissez Faire Institute in Arizona. Every April 22 celebrations of Earth Day take place around the world. This can serve as a reminder to reflect on the status of our planet. Some believe the earth is in great peril and that stringent measures to restrain economic [...]
1Apr2007 | John Semmens | 1 comment | ContinuedSeparate State and Science
I don’t reach much fiction these days, but one novel I intend to read is State of Fear, Michael Crichton’s story of how environmentalists use allegedly man-made catastrophic global warming to control the population. Anyone who has the power to cause such hysteria among the Kyoto Protocol set must be doing something right. (Bjørn Lomborg [...]
1Jun2005 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedMaking Environmental Tradeoffs
Wealthy countries have it easy. Their citizens are richer. Their people enjoy healthier and safer environments. Yet Western nations are hindering Third World people from improving their lives—in the name of the environment.
Malaria is seen as a poor nation’s disease, but it once afflicted today’s industrialized states. Decades ago people in the United States and Europe suffered from this, one of history’s most ravaging diseases. But malaria has essentially disappeared in the West.
1May2001 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Green Scare
Roger Meiners teaches in the economics department at the University of Texas, Arlington, and is a senior associate at PERC. During the Cold War, anti-communist activists were accused of using Red Scare tactics. They were parodied along these lines: The communists were everywhere, maybe even under your bed, so support the politicians who would spend [...]
1May1999 | Roger E. Meiners | 1 comment | ContinuedSaving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental Triumph of High Yield Farming
Dr. Pasour is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. The media is all too eager to spread the message of “doom and gloom” environmentalists. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers pose an imminent and growing threat both to human health and to wildlife. Population growth is spiraling upward out of control and [...]
1Jan1996 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 3 comments | Continued-
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