Liberty and Ecology has posted a number of articles discussing hunting as a means of conserving wildlife. Every article acknowledges the vital role the hunting community has historically played in wildlife conservation both in the United States and internationally. Among these articles is a three-part series by Wallace Kaufman. He argues that hunting is no…
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The Challenge of Private “Seasteading”
By Greg Rehmke. This is a guest post by Greg Rehmke, program director of Economic Thinking, an organization that fosters better understanding of economic principles. Natural coral and oyster reefs around the world are considered “rainforests of the oceans,” home to rich and diverse ecosystems. Shipwrecks, offshore oil platforms, and artificial reefs teem with species…
NPR Attacks David Legates. Heartland Issues Point-by-Point Rebuttal
Whatever one’s views about climate change, nothing can justify National Public Radio’s recent brutal and uninformed attack on David Legates, a professor at the University of Delaware and former Delaware state climatologist. Legates has just been appointed to a high position at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and that was enough to bring…
How Fossil Fuels Protect Wild Lands . . . Deaths from Hurricanes Have Declined . . .
HEADLINES: Fossil‐fuel technologies have saved at least 20 percent of global land area from agricultural conversion, Indur Goklany writes in Conservation Biology. Agricultural productivity is necessary to avoid turning wildlife habitat into farmland, and fertilizer and synthetic pesticides are needed to sustain productivity . . . Michael Shellenberger: ‘Why Deaths From Hurricanes And Other Natural…
An Urban-Rural Split over Wind, Solar Energy
Not everyone loves wind or solar energy. Rural communities, which bear the brunt of gigantic “renewable energy” projects, are becoming unhappy about putting up with them for the sake of virtue-signaling cities. Vince Bielski of RealClearInvestigations explains: “A typical wind farm with 50 turbines might occupy 15,000 acres, or 23 square miles, which is many…
The Pandemic and Trophy Hunting
Fear that the coronavirus pandemic came from wild animals has evoked calls for greater limits on trade in wildlife. But Catherine Semcer of PERC (the Property and Environment Research Center), in a thorough discussion of the issue, says that the coronavirus did not come from legal trade in wildlife and warns against further restricting trophy…