All Posts Tagged With: "environmentalism"

Big Brother Is Watching You Recycle

In 2009, after four years of controversial and piecemeal policies intended to enforce recycling, England imposed a complex and compulsory system of garbage-sorting on homeowners. Citing the British model, Cleveland, Ohio, is taking a giant step toward a similar scheme of compulsory recycling. In 2011 some 25,000 households will be required to use recycling bins fitted [...]

24Nov2010 | Wendy McElroy | 28 comments | Continued

Can Government Save Us from Manmade Disasters?

Please, folks, can’t we have a little more sophistication about what it takes to prevent environmental disasters? The politicians seem to be stuck on the idea that more government is the solution, and many journalists echo the theme. In discussing the BP spill and several other manmade environmental disasters last summer, Washington Post reporters David [...]

22Oct2010 | James L. Payne | 3 comments | Continued

What’s So Bad about Eco-Propaganda for Kids?

Although my own children have long outgrown picture books, I still have nephews and nieces young enough to enjoy them. So I buy them from time to time. I also buy books on energy. Perhaps it was that combination that prompted Amazon to recommend What’s So Bad About Gasoline? by Anne Rockwell, engagingly illustrated by [...]

22Sep2010 | Andrew P. Morriss | 23 comments | Continued

Sustainability: Not Just for Environmentalists

Busybodies, both left and right, seem to be extraordinarily talented at coming up with buzzwords to justify imposing their visions of a better world at the cost of our freedom.

29Jul2010 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | Continued

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Bjørn Lomborg has shaken up the world of environmentalists. Describing himself as “an old left-wing Greenpeace member,” the Danish statistician has produced a book that undermines most of the apocalyptic scares that keep Greenpeace afloat. The Skeptical Environmentalist makes a persuasive case that the environment is improving, not getting worse, and that most of the [...]

30Jun2010 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | Continued

Phony Food Crisis

Green icon Paul Ehrlich is widely known for his absurdly inaccurate projections regarding population and food. Rarely does a doomsday projection pass by without his embracing it. But most of his previous false claims are forgotten, or ignored, by the anti-capitalist coalition of today. After all, Ehrlich made those claims in 1968, and that was [...]

27Jun2010 | James Peron | 1 comment | Continued

Safer Living with Chemistry

Back in 1651 Thomas Hobbes described life in the state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short.” But even in civilized society during his lifetime, most people lived under what we would consider wretched conditions. At that time, you were lucky if you lived past 30; our notion of basic sanitation didn’t exist; people used [...]

25Jun2010 | Angela Logomasini | 1 comment | Continued

State of Fear

State of Fear is a didactic novel, teaching while telling a story. Author Michael Crichton is attempting here to do more than just to make a general statement to the reader, such as Upton Sinclair did in The Jungle (“capitalism is bad”) or Ayn Rand did in Atlas Shrugged (“capitalism is vital”). He is attempting [...]

18May2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | Continued

Government Moonshine

From its minor role as an oxygenate additive for gasoline, ethanol has become the darling of Washington. Politicians embrace ethanol as a miracle elixir. All the fashionable energy buzzwords can be applied to it. It is “green power”; it’s “renewable” and will provide “energy independence” for America. Legislation has been promoting ethanol nonstop. The Energy [...]

24Mar2010 | Michael Heberling | 4 comments | Continued

100 Reasons Why Climate Change is Natural

“HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made. ” (Daily Express, Tuesday) I would have been convinced by 10 or so. FEE Timely Classic: “Environmentalism: The Triumph of Politics” by Doug Bandow

16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

China and US at Impasse Over Carbon Monitoring

“China and the United States were at an impasse on Monday at the United Nations climate change conference here over how compliance with any treaty could be monitored and verified. “China, which last month for the first time publicly announced a target for reducing the rate of growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, is refusing [...]

15Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Are the “Climate Change” Emails a Tempest in a Teapot?

For “climate change” skeptics like me, the recently revealed emails from scientists who aggressively have promoted the current political doctrine are very telling. Not surprisingly, those at the center of this controversy are claiming that the words we have read mean nothing, and that governments must continue their environmental policies – or else. A gaggle [...]

2Dec2009 | William L. Anderson | 9 comments | Continued

Some Utility Companies Want Cap and Trade Now

“Utility executives are stepping up calls for legislation to cap greenhouse-gas emissions, fearing that if Congress doesn’t act, the EPA will establish rules that would be costlier and less effective.” (Wall Street Journal, Monday) Summary of domestic energy policy debate: Devil you know or the devil you don’t? FEE Timely Classic: “The Perverse Popularity of [...]

9Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | Continued

Climate Bill Pushed Through Committee

“In a step that reflected deep partisan divisions in the Senate over the issue of global warming, Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans.” (New York Times, Friday) Looks like its Hail Mary time. FEE Timely Classic: “Mandating Renewable Energy: It [...]

6Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued

Alert: Sham Global Warming Could Hit Midwest Hardest

Huffington Post Headline: Where Climate Change Will Hit HardestThe flashy red map bull’s eyes in on the heart of the Midwest. The story goes on to list congressmen in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska who are standing in the way of “cap and trade”.Clicking the link to the actual analysis takes me to an even flashier [...]

27Aug2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 2 comments | Continued

Dim Bulbs

“Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something.” —Thomas A. Edison Edison’s words may have been true in the 1800s. Today, however, we have plenty of rules, thanks to the U.S. Congress. Some are so bizarre that you have to question the judgment of those who come up with them. One rule in [...]

10Jun2009 | Michael Heberling | 30 comments | Continued

Gas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society

As someone who commutes 16 miles each way to work in a gas-guzzling sports car along the LA-area freeways, I’ve been less-than-amused by the nearly $5 a gallon I must pay for the premium fuel that keeps my mid-life-crisis-mobile running. Yet despite the misery of high prices, I’ve taken a certain joy in watching the [...]

1Nov2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | Continued
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