Unfortunately, we cannot remain neutral while the experts battle. The global-warming advocates support drastic measures that would seriously affect production. Some of them go further and call for curbs on human population. In this connection, it is more than a little disturbing that John Holdren, chosen by Barack Obama as his science advisor
Today is Earth day, and a week ago we “celebrated” tax day. It is fitting, in a sense, that Earth Day and Tax Day are only one week apart. Those who blame global warming on human activity see taxation as an effective and desirable means of preventing environmental global catastrophe. In a recent publication, former Bush advisor Greg Mankiw has
Ah, the greens. They’re not just treehuggers anymore. They’ve been browbeating us to recycle, eat soy, save energy, drive less, ride the bus, and a thousand other ways to “act local” for many years now, writes Tyler A. Watts. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Gennady Stolyarov
Recycling happens naturally when there is market demand for waste items like plastic, paper, metal or glass, but mandated recycling does more harm than good. When do you know that recycling is worthy? You know when some person or business asks to buy your particular waste from you, not when some authority forces you to recycle. Thus, metal and
This audio version of the Mises.org Daily Article was read by Dr. Floy Lilley. David Gordon covers new books in economics, politics, philosophy, and law for ‘The Mises Review’, the quarterly review of literature in the social sciences, published since 1995 by the Mises
[An MP3 audio version of this article, read by Floy Liley, is available as a free download .] Today is Earth day, and a week ago we “celebrated” tax day. It is fitting, in a sense, that Earth Day and Tax Day are only one week apart. Those who blame global warming on human activity see taxation as an effective and desirable means of preventing
On February 7, 2009, and in the week that followed, bushfires ignited across Victoria, in Australia. [1] The fires raged through many towns, destroying at least 1,834 homes, [2] and killing at least 209 people, [3] more fatalities than any bushfire in Australian history. [4] Let’s compare: in the 1983 “Ash Wednesday” bushfires, seventy-five
President Obama has proposed combining stimuli to promote employment with the fight against alleged man-made global warming, which allegedly results mainly from the burning of fossil fuels. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of new jobs will supposedly be created by replacing power from fossil fuels with power from windmills and solar panels.
Last year, on the last Saturday in March, Google’s white background turned black, as a symbolic gesture for 2008’s “Earth Hour.” They accompanied this gesture with a puzzling rationale : As to why we don’t do this permanently — it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display . Such a gesture, done
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