How coronavirus affects climate change: ‘Like someone standing on the beach worrying about sea level rise suddenly spotting a Tsunami.’ Coronavirus brings back the single-use plastic bag. How to stop poachers: Hire them.
Category: The Environmental Blog
Joe Bast Remembers Fred Singer
Excerpts from Joe Bast’s remembrance of Fred Singer, who died April 6 at the age of 95. On the Heartland Institute website: Fred Singer was a giant in the field of climate science. His careers in government, the academy, and then in think tanks gave him a breadth of knowledge and experience that mere specialists…
What do radical environmentalists really think about saving lives?
What do radical environmentalists really think about saving lives.? Fred Singer, ‘Dauntless Purveyor of Scientific Truth,’ dies at age 95. Another view of the plague of locusts in Africa. Surviving the crisis? Thank fossil fuels.
A Property Rights Solution to Endangered Salmon
Writing for PERC, R. David Simpson gives an intriguing example of salmon preservation: Native American tribes in Oregon considered bidding on a dam license (to change its operations in ways that would protect salmon). The result: a productive relationship with the dam owners—a cooperative effort to protect salmon. Here is an excerpt from Simpson’s paper:…
Links: Gambling on the Wrong Threat, What a Free Market Would Do. . .
‘We gambled on the wrong threat—climate change.’ How a free health care market would have responded to the coronavirus. Stimulus bill a downer for renewable energy companies.
Links: Regulation and the Virus, Reusable Coffee Cups, Deforestation
FEE: ‘A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed by the Coronavirus.’ CEI: Regulation, not offshore outsourcing, is hindering supply of medical equipment. BBC: As coronavirus goes up, air pollution goes down.