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The Sickening Truth About Sierra Club
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Sierra Club is the oldest environmental group in the nation. It was founded in 1892 by a Scottish immigrant named John Muir, whose stated goal was “to make the mountains glad.” In many ways, that puerile policy compendiates perfectly the essence of Sierra Club.
Among other things, John Muir was an unapologetic racist, writing in [...]
Are our fish really being poisoned with mercury?
Thursday, September 25th, 2008If you smell something fishy in this latest wave of methyl mercury talk, the reason is that there is something fishy in it — very fishy — and it stinks to high heaven. Please don’t be lured in. The relevant facts are these:
In this country, there hasn’t been a single scientifically documented case of fish-related [...]
Wind and Solar Energy versus Nuclear
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Energy is like a river; it exists in two ways: flows and stores.
When you store energy, you create a dam to capture it.
What environmentalists call “renewable energy” is really just the stored energy of the sun.
In actuality, there’s no such thing as “renewable energy”: all energy, even the sun, is limited.
Fossil fuels are [...]
Natural Resource and Goods Theory
Saturday, September 13th, 2008The economist George Reisman writes:
The two essential claims of the environmentalists, which I take for granted are already well known to everyone, are (1) that continued economic progress is impossible, because of the impending exhaustion of natural resources (it is from this notion that the slogan “reduce, reuse, recycle” comes), and (2) that continued economic [...]