All Posts Tagged With: "species extinction"
Higher CO2, More Global Warming, and Less Extinction?
Christopher Lingle is a professor of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and adjunct scholar at the Centre for Civil Society in New Delhi. It is widely believed that humans exert a harmful impact on the natural environment, especially when it comes to releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And so there is some [...]
1Sep2004 | Christopher Lingle | 0 comments | ContinuedIn the Absence of Private Property Rights
We commonly benefit from things we neither understand nor appreciate. Obviously there are advantages in benefiting from a wide range of things without having to give them much thought. But the danger is that such neglect can often cause us great harm. Good health is an example. For most people, good health is easy to [...]
1Jul1999 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedWildlife in the Marketplace
Dr. Orient is an internist in solo private practice. She serves as the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She wrote Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Health Care (Crown, 1994). This compendium of nine articles takes examples from the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1700-1763, to emerging Africa, to [...]
1Apr1996 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedNoah’s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). For some people, nature is sacred. To them, little is more important than preserving biodiversity—the great expanse of animal species. For instance, in the view of Paul and Anne Ehrlich, extinctions must be [...]
1Mar1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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