Environment

Mileposts on Environmentalism’s Road to Hell

by Brian Martinez September 11, 2010

Will there come a time when firefighters have to consider saving an endangered species over someone’s home?  One wonders: Lost in the images of aircraft dropping giant red plumes of retardant on a Colorado wildfire this week is the fact that the practice may not be legal under federal environmental laws. A federal judge in [...]

Read the full article →

Greedy Businessman Does More For Environment Than Environmentalists

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché August 5, 2010

Over at Forbes.com, Reihan Salam had something rather unexpected but very welcome to say about the CEO of a major corporation: That the success of the Kindle is good news for Amazon should go without saying. But it represents a remarkable environmental advance as well. The publishing industry in the U.S. felled roughly 125 million [...]

Read the full article →

Separate Oil and State, says Greenpeace

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché August 3, 2010

From the Edmonton Journal comes news that some Greenpeace members rappelled off the top of Calgary Tower to hang a banner that read “Separate Oil and State.” Hey, I’m all in favor of separating oil and state. But that means no strategic oil reserves; no taxes, including carbon taxes; no cap-and-trade; no regulations; no moratoriums [...]

Read the full article →

The last gasp of the global warming movement?

by Brian Martinez August 3, 2010

Are the global warming climate change oh-god-we’re-all-going-to-die-unless-you-move-into-a-yurt-right-NOW activists breathing their last in their attempt to save civilization by destroying it?  Shika Dalmia seems to think so: Future historians will pinpoint Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s energy legislation, released last Tuesday, as the moment that the political movement of global warming entered an irreversible death spiral. It is [...]

Read the full article →

Next Entries →