Not long ago, supposed “environmental justice” concerns at least involved risks to mine workers and their families. The risks may have been inflated, or ignored for decades, but they were a major focus. In one case, a state-run mine and smelter had fouled the air, land and water with toxic contaminants in a Peruvian town…
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How to Prevent Climate Change? Prevent Births!
For 218 years—since Thomas Robert Malthus published the first edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population—people have been coming up with new rationales for limiting or even reducing human population. For Malthus, the fundamental reason is that people ate too much, so increasing their numbers would lead to starvation as farmers’ ability to…
Featured Posts, Larry Bell
Sanctions Won’t Halt NKorea Nukes Progress
While the recent, unanimous U.N. Security Council adoption of new sanctions against North Korea is clearly an encouraging move in a positive direction, there is little reason to regard it is other than a very small step along a very steep and treacherous path forward. In reality, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un can’t likely…
Featured Posts, Jocelyn Monroe, Michael Leyton
The Source for Up to Half of Earth’s Internal Heat Is Unknown
It may not be obvious while lying in the sun on a hot summer’s day, but a considerable amount of heat is also coming from below you – emanating from deep within the Earth. This heat is equivalent to more than three times the total power consumption of the entire world and drives important geological…
Featured Posts, Paul Driessen
Biofuel justifications are illusory
It’s time to really cut, cut, cut ethanol and other renewable fuel mandates – maybe to zero The closest thing to earthly eternal life, President Ronald Reagan used to say, is a government program. Those who benefit from a program actively and vocally defend it, often giving millions in campaign cash to politicians who help…
Featured Posts, Larry Bell
Appeasement, Procrastination on NKorea Hastening Global Disaster
Decades of wistful diplomacy and procrastination now leave America’s mainland vulnerable to immediate and perilous threats posed by a nuclear North Korea. Making matters worse, there are no good options going forward. Any solutions that rely upon real help from China, the U.N. Security Council, or much less Russia, are illusory. The big hope has…