They want to overturn capitalism. That is the import of an article by H. Sterling Burnett on the Heartland.org site. His article, “Climate Alarmists Call for ‘Eco-Dictatorship,’” provides examples from leading figures. First, he quotes Christiana Figueres in 2015, when she was executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change “‘This is the…
Renewables: Oh, the Waste!
The Biden administration is ignoring the problem of waste and pollution in its pursuit of renewable energy, writes the Institute of Energy Research (IER). “Electric vehicle batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines result in a massive amount of waste and pollution. China is responsible for half of the total electric vehicles in the world—a number…
Prosperity Improves the Environment (We Knew That but Many Don’t)
The 2020 Environmental Performance Index shows a close relationship between environmental success and a country’s GDP. This annual index, developed jointly by the Yale Center for Environmental Policy and Law and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, ranks 180 countries. Writing on HumanProgress.org, Ethan Yang finds that wealth and environmental…
Don’t Cut Trees in the Tongass. Go Fishing.
The Biden administration is proposing a broad ban on most commercial logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, a 16.7-million acre forest that has been a political football for decades. “Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the proposal would provide $25 million for community development and would allow Alaska Natives and small-scale operators to continue to harvest…
Green Jobs a Far Cry from ‘Good, High-Wage Jobs’
‘Green jobs’ are not what the Biden administration is claiming they are, says Noam Scheiber in the New York Times. “The Green New Deal, first introduced in 2019, sought to ‘create millions of good, high-wage jobs.’” President Biden repeated the promise in March, says Sheiber.. “’My American Jobs Plan will put hundreds of thousands of…
The New Trade in Non-Production (of Carbon)
The pressure to “do something” about global warming has created exotic new programs that emphasize reducing output. You might think of them as markets in non-production. I will explain them. Carbon offsets. Companies that produce or use fossil fuels are trying to reduce their “carbon footprint” but still continue their business. They are purchasing “offsets”—that…
‘Wild Horse Annie’ Rides Again
Once again, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is faced with opposition to its way of dealing with wild horses on public rangeland. For many decades, wild horses and burros have proliferated on public lands—descendants of escaped horses going back as far as the years of Spanish exploration, plus horses lost or abandoned by settlers…