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Charles Cooke of National Review Online assesses the negative impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential voices on the political left. The man’s views inspired multiple bad ideas…
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde explores a key issue for mankind’s future. For anyone tempted to try to predict humanity’s future, Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb is a cautionary tale. Feeding on the…
Pres. Joe Biden, Gov. Roy Cooper, and other leaders and bureaucrats would force wrenching changes to how people power their homes, drive, eat, and more in order to stave off…
Noah Rothman writes for National Review Online about the poor arguments emerging from those who advocate population control. Today, the movement dedicated to limiting the growth of the human species…
George Will‘s latest column at National Review Online takes on doom-and-gloom predictions about natural resources. Advocates of an ever-larger state, remembering Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural address (seeking “broad executive power…
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
When I was a kid Arbor Day was something wonderful. Instead of sitting around kvetching about the environment we’d go out and actually plant a tree, something lasting. And I…
Paul Ehrlich, the Stanford butterfly scientist who wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, told us we were doomed. Here are some of his predictions: • The battle to feed humanity…
Bjorn Lomborg’s new book, Cool It, is out and is, of course, taking flak from global warming alarmists. Most of the criticism of Lomborg is coming from one source: Aynsley…
So the study compares the present with 1971-75? What I like about that is, back in the early 1970s, the popular panic was over the supposedly inevitable mass starvation. To…
The Western Standard has some great writing and this month’s Editor’s Note by Joe Woodard captures the “spirit” of the religion of the environmentalists: It’s obvious to virtually anyone not…