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…
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Christians Should Be Realistic When Protecting God’s Creation
It’s harvest season in much of America, and the nation’s houses of worship are filled with prayers of thanksgiving for nature’s bounty. Calls for commitments to honor God’s creation are highly appropriate. How can we best accomplish this rewarding but difficult environmental mission? A good beginning is to separate pious but unrealistic pronouncements from prudent…
American Prairie Reserve: Free Market Environmentalism or “Political Land”?
It’s a spectacularly romantic idea—returning a large swathe of western grazing land to prairie land, with bison, elk, cougars, prairie dogs, grouse, and other wildlife. That’s the goal of the American Prairie Reserve, whose owners hope to create open prairie and wildlife range extending over 3.2 million acres in northeastern Montana. “We want to restore…
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…
Federal Court Rules on Grizzly Bear
A federal court in San Francisco has rejected the Trump administration’s 2017 decision to delist the grizzly bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Free market environmentalists had argued that the grizzlies in three states around Yellowstone National Park had made a substantial recovery, and control should be returned to the states.
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…
Medical Waste Grows, Solar Energy Destroys Habitat, Skeptics Reappear. . .
Medical waste from coronavirus is mounting. BBC: Renewable energy is eating up wildlife habitat. HT Benny Peiser. Wikipedia deletes list of scientists who are skeptics on apocalyptic climate change; JoNova retrieves their names. Bjorn Lomborg: How we can reduce indoor air pollution in Ghana.