According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control (” Mortality in the United States, 2017 “), “Life expectancy for the U.S. population declined to 78.6 years in 2017,” largely due to obesity and drug addiction . The American life expectancy trend does not reflect global trends, however. Worldwide, the evidence continues to point
Last week, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a sizable new report titled “ Global Warming of 1.5°C. “ The basic premise of the report is that if the governments of the world do what the UN tells them to do, then global temperature rise will be limited to 1.5°C. The report comes out of the Paris Agreement
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a big-budget semi-satirical take on the spy genre, featuring the film clichés audiences now associate with the James Bond and Jason Bourne franchises. These include global intrigue, amazing gadgetry, beautiful women, hand-to-hand combat, and multiple international locales. Many friends of laissez-faire, and those
In the final days of his administration, President Obama has decided that with the stroke of pen, he shall further consolidate direct federal control over lands within Western states. Specifically, Obama created the Bear Ears National Monument and the Gold Butte National Monument in Utah and Nevada, respectively. The Obama Administration claims
For decades, the general strategy of anti-global warming activists has been to maximize predictions of apocalypse, death, and destruction. This over-the-top approach has been used to promote the idea that virtually no cost is too high when it comes to implementing global governmental control of all human activities in the service of avoiding
In the wake of hurricane Harvey, disaster experts were shocked by how few deaths resulted from the storm: ““It was astounding that we didn’t have a much larger loss of life,” said Phil Bedient , co-director of a Rice University effort to research severe storms and evacuations. A recent count puts total storm-related deaths at 82, out of a
Recently, Paul Krugman went off on one of his usual rants, suggesting that the Libertarian Party’s opposition to environmental regulation was a recipe for disaster. Not so fast, says Tyler Cowen. The problem with the anti-regulation position is that it is not pro-pollution enough . Cowen explains : [Krugman’s position] is the opposite of the
In response to the Trump administration’s announcement that it was pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, some of his critics declared that anyone who likes “science” would have supported the accord. Not surprisingly, Neil deGrasse Tyson rushed to declare that Trump supported the withdrawal because his administration “ never learned what
Since I’m not a person who follows the climate-change debate or climate science in detail, I don’t get involved in discussions over temperature readings or climate trends. On the other hand, I find it’s a very bad idea to leave the science of economics and political economy up to climate scientists and their friends in politics who tend to be
According to Guy McPherson , Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology, etc., at the University of Arizona, (presumably man-made) climate change is “irreversible” and, basically, we’re all doomed. As I’ve noted before, anyone who actually values human liberty and progress should welcome declarations of the “irreversible” nature of global
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.