This blog is about protecting the environment using the tools of economics. Your blog manager is Jane Shaw Stroup, a former senior fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). While the Liberty and Ecology blog is eclectic in the environmental topics it covers, its approach reflects the movement known as free market environmentalism. In…
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The Truth about U. S. Wildfires . . . Polar Bears . . . ‘ESG’ Investing
News: More myths about wildfires in the U. S., exposed at Climate Realism. The polar bears are all right, says polar expert Susan Crockford on the Global Warming Policy Forum. Can BlackRock can meet political demands for ESG (environmental, social, and governmental) investment without giving up fiduciary responsibility? National Review comments.
Nuclear energy . . . the Great American Outdoors bill . . . Anesthetics can change climate?
Nuclear energy may be safer than we think, says a new study from the Global Warming Policy Foundation. A reason to support the Great American Outdoors bill, just passed by the Senate: it would fund maintenance of our national parks, says PERC’s Brian Yablonski on Fox News. Religious diversion? The Vatican recommends divestment from fossil…
Two Problems, Worlds Apart
The Economist is an impressive magazine that offers a balanced view of most topics. The topic of climate change is, however, an exception. The magazine linked the coronavirus to climate change in its May 23/29 editorial “Seize the Moment.” Its subtitle states: “The covid-19 crisis reveals how hard it will be to tackle climate change—and…
Links: ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost’ . . . California Cuts Climate Change Spending . . .
Steve Hayward on ‘The Green God that Failed—Almost,’ an analysis of Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans. Planet of the Humans dropped from YouTube. In the Guardian. HT-RealClearEnergy. California budget cuts billions from climate change funding. HT-GWPF.
An Earth Day Lesson . . . Plastic Bags Are Back . . . The First Human-caused Megadrought?
Earth Day taught us that we are interdependent. From John Baden. Coronavirus brings back plastic bags. From Sterling Burnett. Eco-reality strikes back on Earth Day. From Steve Milloy. The first human-caused megadrought? Anthony Watt says that claim is nonsense.