Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
The fact that those pushing net-zero emissions targets aren’t talking seriously about nuclear power, says it all. If energy policy is left in the hands of the wind and sun cult – and other weather-obsessed lunatics – it won’t be long before we’re all left sitting freezing or boiling in the dark. Those with financial […]
Resistance Is Futile: Net-Zero CO2 Targets Can Only Be Met With Nuclear Power
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Hubris drives the so-called wind and solar ‘transition’, which now depends upon the myth of giant batteries compensating for the vagaries of the weather and sunset. These mythical batteries come in all shapes and sizes and with enough added hyperbole have grown to include the entire island state of Tasmania. Touted with the rent-seeking classes’ […]
Not So Bright Spark: Grand Renewable Energy ‘Battery’ Plan Runs Flat
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[Reminder: I’m running my first Ask Me Anything for paid subscribers tomorrow at 4 PM ET. With all new AV equipment. Upgrade if you want to participate.]Back in 2015, I found myself deeply dissatisfied with all of the other theories of left and right. Survive/thrive theory is especially overrated. So I modestly proposed my own:…
My Simplistic Theory of Left and Right: The Talk
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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New Zealand’s Population Conference is on in Auckland this week, so population issues have been on my mind. In the past, I’ve written about population decline in Japan. Things have escalated since that earlier post, as the Guardian reported last month:Every one of Japan’s 47 prefectures posted a population drop in 2022, while the total number…
Japan’s population decline is both a crisis and an opportunity
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Pretty simple actually for the planet actually, as the following graph shows: 8,500 coal plants need to stop burning coal.We stop driving 1.4 billion cars.Planes stop flying 100,000 times a day.Stop eating tens of billions of animals per year.Stop shipping stuff. Yeah. That’ll happen. Incidentally, as a sort of follow-up to the previous post on […]
Hitting Net Zero
28 Aug 2023 2 Comments
Germany has been overrun with 30,000 giant industrial wind turbines and millions of solar panels. Its climate cult reckons that the wholesale environmental destruction wreaked so far is all about saving the planet. It’s an argument that holds all the logic of amputating an entire leg to prevent a septic toe from doing any further damage […]
How 30,000 Industrial Wind Turbines Have Wrecked Germany’s Environment
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in development economics, economic history Tags: British history, Roman empire
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in economic history, industrial organisation, television
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Below is an expanded version of my Hill column on the Georgia call at the center of the recent indictment and the attack in the Washington Post by columnist Philip Bump, someone I have repeatedly criticized in the past for false and misleading stories. The column attacked me for suggesting that the Georgia call was […]
Yes, Trump was Seeking Another Recount or Investigation in Georgia: A Response to the Washington Post
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Mitchell List and Kurt Schuler serve as interlocutors in “An Interview with James D. Gwartney on His Life and Work in Economics” (August 2023 (Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, SAE #238, August 2023). The interview offers an in-depth overview of his pathway to and within economics.…
Interview with James Gwartney: Personal Choices and Public Choice
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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