The Environment

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Robert P. Murphy

This should be shocking to naïve citizens and those who assumed that “the science” must all support the UN’s temperature goals.

Robert P. Murphy

Activists who genuinely believe the world faces catastrophe should give serious consideration to David Henderson’s reasons for thinking a carbon tax might be a false “solution."

Matheus Fialho Vieira

Brazil — and its longtime disregard for property rights — has shown us how not to manage forest lands. Current calls for government solutions to forest fires do nothing to offer real solutions.

Robert P. Murphy

The whole episode shows the folly of top-down political solutions to social challenges.

Robert P. Murphy

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.

Jonathan Newman

People use the marketplace to deliver what others need and want. Environmentalism, on the other hand, is built around denying human needs. 

Robert P. Murphy

The most alarming of the projections of climate change damages rely on naïve assumptions about human adaptability.

Ferghane Azihari

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.