Dusty Wunderlich explains how he discovered the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and how its efforts to protect the environment resonate with his Misesian principles. (Wunderlich’s article was originally published by the Mises Institute.) He discusses the Paradise Valley Brucellosis Compensation Fund. Image of Paradise Valley, Montana, is from Holtzter of Pixabay.
Author: Jane Shaw Stroup
Feds to Lend $700 Million for Lithium Mine
A sample of where the “IRA” money is going: The Department of Energy is conditionally planning to lend $700 million to an Australian company, Ioneer, to create a “massive lithium mine in western Nevada,” reports Jeff St. John for Canary Media. (The company will lead an international consortium.) Lithium is a material critical to the…
More “Billion-dollar” Disasters Don’t Mean the Climate Is Worse
Roger Pielke Jr. explains that NOAA’s rising count of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more does not mean that the weather events have increased or worsened. Inflation, insurance, and economic growth are better explainers. “The billion-dollar disaster tally is easy to understand, simple to communicate, but in actual fact, incredibly misleading. It is…
Thursday Links
- Are they going to ban gas stoves? Yes, it seems so.
- No, maybe not!
- Banning fluorescent and incandescent lighting? Yes, it seems so.
- Could a free-market technique—satisfying customers—save curbside recycling?
- EV trash trucks stalled because U.K. city doesn’t have enough chargers.
- Is there a backlash against ESG (and what is ESG, anyway)?
- The Fed, thank goodness, is not going to be a “climate policymaker.” Really?
- Government to crack down on low-level lead fuel (it’s not low enough) in general aviation.
Environmental Justice Means Having Your Own Solar Panel
The state of Rhode Island will subsidize the construction of solar panels on the houses of low- or moderate-income families. Writes Lesa Prevost in Energy News: “The program will offer affordable leases for solar equipment on homes owned by residents with incomes less than or equal to 80% of the area median income. That’s a…
Paul Ehrlich’s Errors Go Unexamined, Except by Realists
Remember Paul Ehrlich? In 1968 the Stanford biologist predicted that the world would experience global famine because of overpopulation. It didn’t happen, but Ehrlich is still the darling of environmentalists and media that want to sound “woke.” On Jan. 1 Paul Ehrlich was featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes for his insights into the future state…