We are grateful to the Net Zero Watch and the Global Warming Policy Foundation for their “Earth Day 2023” cartoon. If you read carefully you can see messages about changes over the past 53 years (since Earth Day 1970) such as these: Life expectancy has increased 30% to 72. Extreme poverty has halved. Food has…
Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
A Sad Commentary on Earth Day 2023
Sterling Burnett of the Heartland Institute ponders whether this is Earth Day or Vladimir Lenin’s birthday (it is both). He recounts recent governmental regulations affecting gas stoves, lightbulbs, electric cars and says: “This year, the authoritarian leanings of the elitist environmental cabal inside and outside the Biden administration are on full display. Never in the…
Menominee Indians Show How Forests Can Be Thinned
While the New York Times puts an anti-profit spin on the operation, the value of thinning forests comes through in an upbeat article by Cara Buckler. The Menominee, Wisconsin, tribe has had a “sustainable” forest for 160 years., she says. A big part of that success comes from culling the weaker trees, providing space for…
Ben Zycher Slams Earth Day’s “Destructive Silliness”
“Let me be blunt,” says economist Ben Zycher:”The Earth Day initiatives are destructive silliness, a form of mass hysteria, and utterly unsubtle.” To summarize his many points: “The Earth Day revision of the Old Testament might read: ‘In the Beginning, Earth was the Garden of Eden. But Mankind, having consumed the Forbidden Fruit of the…
Not a Joke: New York City Plans to Cut Carbon Emissions by Changing Diets
New York’s Mayor Eric Adams plans to reduce the city government’s “food-based [greenhouse gas] emissions” by 33 percent by 2030. And he is “challenging our private sector partners to join us by cutting their food emissions by 25 percent in the same time period.” At a press event April 17 he said the city has…
How Visible Are Off-Shore Wind Turbines?
The governor of North Carolina has adopted the Biden administration’s push toward renewables. He is requiring the state to aim at supplying 8.0 gigawatts of electricity from offshore wind by 2040. Those turbines will be near Brunswick County and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and thus near some of the state’s most appealing tourist spots. That…