All Posts Tagged With: "environmentalists"
The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America
We all, like sheep, have gone astray. We have sinned. We must humble ourselves. We must repent and turn from our wicked ways. These are the messages of our modern-day secular religions: economic religion and environmental religion. Throughout The New Holy Wars, Robert H. Nelson uses theological reasoning to explore them. His book is an [...]
21Apr2011 | Art Carden | 1 comment | ContinuedEnvironmentalists in Outer Space
J. H. Huebert (jhhuebert@jhhuebert.com) is an attorney and a former FEE intern. Walter Block (wblock@loyno.edu) is Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics and professor of economics at Loyola University, New Orleans. A longer version of this article appeared in the University of Memphis Law Review. Save the earth! That’s been the mantra of [...]
1Mar2008 | and Jacob H. Huebert | 0 comments | ContinuedCool 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 | 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 | Continued"Corporate" Power Alone Is the Problem?
One of the tried and true formulas for giving a speech is the “loss of the golden days” approach. The speaker contrasts an imagined time in the past when things were good with present conditions. The present, of course, is bad and rapidly getting worse. Some evil force that the listeners are bound to dislike [...]
1Apr2005 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Irrational Precautionary Principle
Chlorine is a common chemical. It’s estimated to be used in the production of 80 percent of all pharmaceuticals. But like most chemicals it can cause problems depending on the dose, what it is mixed with, and how it is used. On one hand, it is used to disinfect drinking water and saves millions of [...]
1Apr2004 | James Peron | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
Should the French Boycott Be Boycotted? To the Editor: I am enjoying my first issue of your publication and glad to be a new FEE supporter. I confess to having stumbled at the threshold, however; I’m dubious, that is, about [Sheldon Richman's case for] boycotting the boycott (July/August). The state/people distinction is sometimes useful in [...]
1Oct2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAverage Americans versus Environmentalists
A few years ago American Enterprise magazine carried an article by Karl Zinsmeister titled “Environmentalists vs. Scientists.” It’s mostly a report on research published by two academics, Stanley Rothman and Robert Lichter, in their book Environmental Cancer: A Political Disease. The authors surveyed a cross-section of environmental leaders at organizations such as the Natural Resources [...]
1Jul2003 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Sustainable–and Young–Hydrocarbon Energy Age
As the Bush administration confronts the economy’s growing need for affordable and reliable energy, the critics of the hydrocarbon-based energy economy are back to the drawing board. The “soft” energy path of subsidies and mandates for conservation and nonhydro renewable energy—hatched during the 1970s energy crisis and popularized during the eight years of Clinton/Gore—was not [...]
1Nov2001 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 3 comments | ContinuedRegulating Biodiversity: Tragedy in the Political Commons
David Laband teaches natural resources economics and policy at the Forest Policy Center in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University. Last summer, lightning struck and killed an enormous pine tree on one side of my backyard. At about the same time, voracious pine bark beetles girdled and killed an equally impressive [...]
1Sep2001 | David N. Laband | 0 comments | ContinuedUnprecedented Global Warming?
One of the most contentious issues of the day is global warming. Those who openly discuss the subject fall into one of two camps. First, there are the environmental alarmists who only see the world in terms of urban sprawl, deforestation, and pollution. For this group, global warming provides the much-needed justification to curtail, or [...]
1May2001 | Michael Heberling | 3 comments | ContinuedGreens Against Greens
Playing golf on Long Island can be a glorious experience. On this sliver of land in the Atlantic Ocean, golfers are treated to various types of golf, from playing often windswept layouts along the north and south shores, to more inland, wooded, and hilly courses. Long Island also has a fairly impressive history of professional [...]
1Aug1999 | Raymond J. Keating | 1 comment | ContinuedGlobal Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment
Only a policy wonk could love this book, but its contents are vital for understanding a major change underway in environmental and foreign policy. Ahead of many others, James Sheehan has recognized the growing power of the international environmental movement. Sheehan, who directs international policy activities for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, describes the exercise of [...]
1Aug1999 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Battle For Diamond Head: A Case of Market Failure?
“Hawaii’s great and beloved landmark . . . is too precious an asset to be sacrificed.” —Honolulu Advertiser editorial (1967) Last month I addressed the theory of entrepreneurial error in conjunction with the year 2000 computer problem. This month I raise another issue dealing with the possibility of market failure: Should government protect a local [...]
1Apr1999 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedNature’s Entrepreneurs
Terry Anderson is a professor of economics at Montana State University and executive director of the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Donald Leal is a senior associate of PERC. This article was adapted from chapter one of their book Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well. Copyright 1998 Rowman & Littlefield. “We have our [...]
1Nov1998 | and Terry L. Anderson | 4 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 | ContinuedThe Fine Art of Conservation
Bernie Jackson is an electrical engineer and freelance writer from California. Imagine being a fly on the wall in an upscale auction house. You witness a parade of unique, priceless merchandise—items whose value cannot be explained by material usefulness alone. Their value arises from some combination of aesthetics, historical importance, pride of ownership, and a [...]
1Oct1998 | Bernie Jackson | 0 comments | Continued-
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