The Environment

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Robert P. Murphy

A “Green New Deal” makes no sense on economic grounds, either in spirit or in letter.

Jason Morgan

The Earth’s climate is extraordinarily complex. We need facts and dispassionate interpretation not quacks or snake oil salesmen who see science as a bandwagon.

Robert P. Murphy

The media is using the recent National Climate Assessment to warn about the "cost of inaction" on climate change. Here's what they miss.

Ruth Shallcross Maynard

Conservation will take place where individuals are allowed to seek solutions. Necessity is the mother not only of invention but of conservation as well.

Gary Galles

The concept of "productive complements" shows us how capitalists have long sought to make as much use as they can of every part of the materials they use to make goods.

Robert P. Murphy

It is the boosters of aggressive government action, such as a carbon tax, who ignore the peer-reviewed research on climate change.

Ryan McMaken

Even if we accept the mainstream narrative on the effects of climate change, the costs of implementing a global regulatory "mitigation" program are far higher than advocates admit.

Mark Thornton

A combination of federal sugar subsidies, federal regulations on pollution, and federal control of Lake Okeechobee (a giant lake in southern Florida) runoff guidelines has created a recipe for disaster.

Michael Malin

When people are directly responsible for something — and rely on that thing for current and future sustenance — they will manage it better.