All Posts Tagged With: "environmentalists"
What Is This Thing Called Sprawl?
“Urban sprawl” is fast becoming the most important issue among so-called “land use” experts and in many state legislatures as well. If it isn’t understood correctly, laws enacted to deal with it are likely to become major threats to both liberty and economic well-being. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as the old saying [...]
1Oct1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | ContinuedNightmare in Green
Jarret Wollstein is a founder and director of the International Society for Individual Liberty, a global libertarian organization with members in over 70 countries. He is also the author of eight books, including Lethal Compassion: Why Government Medicine Is the Cure that Kills (with Mary Ruwart). “The threat of an environmental crisis will be the [...]
1Sep1998 | Jarret B. Wollstein | 3 comments | ContinuedGlobal Warming: Hot Problem or Hot Air?
Jonathan Adler is director of environmental studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C., and the editor of The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications (1997), from which portions of this essay are adapted. El Niño is the overhyped weather event of the decade. It has even made CNN’s “Larry King [...]
1Apr1998 | Jonathan H. Adler | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Pine Barrens Parousia: A Reporter’s Notebook
Matthew Carolan is executive editor of National Review. For additional information, contact the Civil Property Rights Associates, P.O. Box 202, Brightwaters, NY 11718, (516) 665-2020. Circling the corner of Doe Run in Manorville, New York, my guides and I came across a young married couple discussing with their landscaper the finer points of decorative rock [...]
1Aug1997 | Matthew Carolan | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Faith & Credit: The World Bank’s Secular Empire by Susan George and Fabrizio Sabelli
Westview Press • 1994 • 282 pages • $63.50 cloth; $16.95 paperback Mr. Ewert is the editor of U-Turn, a quarterly publication addressing theological, political, economic, and social issues from a biblical perspective. Someone once put forth the aphorism: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Presumably if you’re against something and I’m against [...]
1Feb1997 | Ken S. Ewert | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism by Gregg Easterbrook
Viking • 1995 • 745 pages • $27.95 Mr. Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology. Environmentalists have long enjoyed the political high ground. After all, who could be against clean water? As a result, over the [...]
1Feb1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedWar on the West: Government Tyranny on America’s Great Frontier
Ms. Shaw is senior associate of PERC, a research center in Bozeman, Montana. If the federal government has declared war on the West, as William Perry Pendley contends, we had better pay attention, since the federal government owns so much of it. As Pendley points out, Washington, D.C., manages more than 80 percent of Nevada, [...]
1Jun1996 | Jane S. Shaw | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Environmental Pollution the Principal Environmental Problem?
Dr. Macaulay is Alumni Professor Emeritus of Economics at Clemson University. Ever since Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, Americans have been actively concerned about environmental pollution. Congress has enacted laws requiring clean water and clean air, and the Environmental Protection Agency has been established to enforce these laws. Activist environmental groups, such as [...]
1Jul1995 | Hugh Macaulay | 0 comments | ContinuedEco-Fascism
Mr. Madden is an instructor in communication at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The violations of private property rights that have flowed from the environmental movement and its adherence to the erroneous theory of “intrinsic value” have already caused intense hardships for many people. Individuals have been prevented from developing their land as [...]
1Apr1995 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | ContinuedRecycling Myths
If there’s a buzzword in the business of managing America’s solid waste problem, surely it is “recycling.” At times the term seems to have taken on an almost religious meaning, with the faithful assuming that “disposable” is bad and “recycling” is good by definition.
1Mar1995 | Lawrence W. Reed | 9 comments | Continued-
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