All Posts Tagged With: "natural resource depletion"
Global Warming and the Layman
Global warming is a divisive issue. People are either believers or skeptics, with each side viewing the other with apprehension. I’ve sided firmly with the skeptics, but lately I have had a nagging concern. Like most people, I am not an atmospheric scientist. I have no firsthand way to evaluate a scientifically based argument for [...]
1Jan2007 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | ContinuedFood, Famine, and Free Trade
For decades population doomsayers have been predicting that massive famines were around the corner. Yet the United Nations Population Fund recently released its report “The State of the World’s Population 1999,” which says, “The world’s population is healthier from infancy through old age than it ever has been.”1 In a press release the United Nations [...]
1Apr2000 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedPaper Tiger
Christopher Mayer, a commercial loan officer, is studying for an MBA at the University of Maryland. Gadflies have long been predicting the exhaustion of critical natural resources—especially oil. Despite the doomsaying, a barrel of oil is cheaper today than a pair of movie tickets. As Daniel Yergin pointed out in a recent editorial in the [...]
1Apr1999 | Christopher Mayer | 1 comment | ContinuedFacts, Not Fear: A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Children About the Environment by Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw
Regnery Publishing • 1996 • 300 pages • $14.95 paperback Mr. Rehmke is director of educational programs at the Free Enterprise Institute in Houston. In Facts, Not Fear: A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Children About the Environment, Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw cover a wide spectrum of environmental issues and contrast the research of leading [...]
1Aug1997 | Gregory F. Rehmke | 0 comments | Continued-
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