Archive for the ‘Environmentalism’ Category
Obama regime’s refusal of Dutch help for the BP oil spill
Thursday, July 1st, 2010I might be a little late posting about this, but it doesn't make it any less infuriating: Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the ...
Link of the day
Monday, May 24th, 2010Charles Johnson details how clean-water regulations actively prevent citizens and organizations from cleaning up water on their own. An important component of libertarian theory is that the State stifles private, community-based, voluntary efforts to keep the environment clean and encourages/allows companies to simply follow the letter of the law instead ...
Damn dams
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Your humor du jour, from my friend's Facebook page, one of my four libertarian friends in the world: this funny email exchange between an environmental bureaucrat and an innocent citizen.
Obama stimulus plan provides bubble for green jobs
Thursday, May 7th, 2009MSNBC reports, "Stimulus plan provides boost to green jobs" and Obama's "green adviser" has said, "Everyone is predicting growth in this sector." See? It's happening! The green bubble is expanding! The Imperial Federal Government is diverting resources from one bubble and pushing them into another. The Obama regime thinks it can ...
Obama starts inflating the auto bubble
Saturday, April 11th, 2009I don't believe it. Well, of course I do, because I predicted it: The Obama regime has begun inflating the automotive bubble by purchasing 17,600 "green" automobiles from GM, Ford, and Chrysler as part of its counterproductive $787 billion stimulus plan. It will spend $285 million on the automobiles by ...
Water shortage does not equal water scarcity
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009I liked this column by Chris Brown for the Ludwig von Mises Institute because it echoed some points I made in two previous posts: Water shortages and water-trading between states and Scarcity is not shortage. Some excerpts (italics in original): The government has blamed the shortage of water on drought and ...
Algore for Secretary of Energy?
Sunday, November 16th, 2008One of George W. Bush's most derided and publicized shortcomings was all the terrible nominations and appointments he made for various governmental positions: Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank, Harriet "Palpatine" Miers for Supreme Court justice, John Ashcroft as Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General, John Bolton ...
Barack Obama, window breaker extraordinaire
Monday, September 29th, 2008Barack Obama and all of his Democratic supporters have already exposed themselves as true economic ignoramuses. It isn't getting any better. The veritable hero among knaves in the mainstream media, John Stossel, writes: Wow. Five million new jobs. All that work building windmills and creating biofuels are the "green jobs" that ...
Ownership key to saving fisheries
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Writes Radley Balko: "The BBC somewhat surprisingly publishes the answer to the continuing tragedy of the commons that is the world’s fisheries: property rights!
Children, forward to the Glorious Green Future!
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Unsurprisingly, quite a few radical environmentalists are escalating their alarmist/propagandist efforts and trying to turn children into snitches on their parents and blind servants of the Glorious State. I'm pretty sure most people who call themselves "environmentalists" and embrace the term would find this brand of brainwashing and family-destruction very ...
African nature preserves and the tragedy of the commons
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008In the July 4, 2008 issue of Science, there was a news & views article about over-hunting and poaching of animals on nature preserves in Africa, due to the large increase in human populations surrounding the preserves. It seems the establishment of nature preserves attracts people to settle around them, ...
What if climate-change alarmists are right?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Max Borders presents a pretty good case as to why State solutions to those problems are worse than the problems themselves.
Coercion, not persuasion or enterprise, is the answer
Saturday, May 10th, 2008for environmentalists, claims Ann Pettifor on the BBC website. Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being, writes that "there are over one - maybe even two - million organisations (worldwide) working toward ecological sustainability and social justice". And yet... and yet... there ...