In New “Mind-Blowing” Study, Planting Trees Reduces Carbon Better Than Carbon Taxes
The whole episode shows the folly of top-down political solutions to social challenges.
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Plastic Bans: Imaginary Benefits, Real Costs
Proposals to ban single-use plastics is yet another triumph of symbolism over substance. Unfortunately, while the benefits are largely illusory, the costs are quite real.
Environmentalists Are Anti-Human
People use the marketplace to deliver what others need and want. Environmentalism, on the other hand, is built around denying human needs.
Ignore the Fear Mongering, Here’s What Climate Change Models Actually Say
The most alarming of the projections of climate change damages rely on naïve assumptions about human adaptability.
The Green Movement’s Anti-Humanism
Having failed to show that capitalism impoverishes people, socialists have invented a new victim of material prosperity: the environment. But this latest turn is the most disturbing of all in its knee-jerk hatred for human beings and human life.
Non-Renewable Resources Never Really Run Out
Supply, demand, and prices affect human usage of natural resources in such a way that the most scarce and valued resources are economized and preserved. The practical effect is that valuable resources never really run out.
New Study Finds a Modest Carbon Tax Would Hurt All Humanity for Two Generations
To borrow a line from Al Gore, this strikes me as a “risky scheme.”
What Universities Won’t Teach College Students About the Economics of Climate Change
The rhetorical framing of "climate change" is far removed from the underlying research. And the real-world costs of "doing something" are rarely considered.
Two Years After Trump’s Exit from the Paris Agreement, It’s Proven To Be a Farce
Environmental activists admit that the Paris Agreement wasn't a "solution" to climate change, they should actually be thanking Trump for abandoning it.
