Julian Simon on Resources, Growth and Human Progress
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, health economics, liberalism, resource economics Tags: capitalism and freedom, commodity prices, creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Julian Simon, life expectancies, peak oil, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
How humans cause mass extinctions?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: cranks, doomsday prophets, endangered species, Paul Ehrlich
HT: MasterResource
@GreenpeaceNZ is the zenith of the Anti-science Left in New Zealand
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: antiscience left, expressive voting, GMOs, green rent seeking, Greenpeace, Left-wing hypocrisy, precautionary principle, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
US researchers: the idea that global warming has slowed is "no longer valid" grnpc.org/IgDMn via @BBCWorld http://t.co/bIDhaWPV3r—
(@Greenpeace) June 05, 2015
Brace yourself. Global warming is 'set to speed up to rates not seen for 1,000 years.' bit.ly/1x8TnKd http://t.co/pLTprLEiIm—
Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) March 09, 2015
Are we doomed? Global temperatures hit critical point, scientists warn. bit.ly/1DWkJq7 via @EcoWatch http://t.co/VRT7DH3stN—
Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) August 01, 2015
Would the reckless maritime protests of @Greenpeace be tolerated on land?
01 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, environmental economics, environmentalism, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, property rights, Rawls and Nozick, transport economics Tags: Greenpeace, John Rawls, peaceful protest
Were the Greenpeace runabouts observing maritime safety rules such as avoiding collisions and giving way? Any protester that behaved like that in a car would be immediately arrested and charged.
Why it is tolerated in the high seas is beyond me when it would never be tolerated on the road. No one would pretend reckless driving was peaceful protest. Is it okay to behave recklessly in a boat? No one would accept that in a car on land.
Central to the notion of peaceful protest is fidelity to democracy and the rule of law. The idea is not to impose your will upon others, but to persuade the majority to reconsider their position by showing the passionate extent to which you disagree with them and honestly believe they are mistaken.
The civil disobedient is attempting to appeal to the “sense of justice” of the majority and a willingness to accept arrest is proof of the integrity of the act says Rawls:
…any interference with the civil liberties of others tends to obscure the civilly disobedient quality of one’s act.
Rawls argues that the use or threat of violence is incompatible with a reasoned appeal to fellow citizens to move them to change a law. The actions are not a means of coercing or frightening others into conforming to one’s wishes. That is a breach of the principles of a just society.
#ISDS is saving the planet from global warming!
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: carbon emissions, Euroland, expressive voting, Germany, global warming, investor state dispute settlement, nuclear energy, tradeoffs
Thomas Macaulay (1830) on the green movement
19 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: doomsday prophecies, doomsday prophets, Leftover Left, Thomas Macaulay
“…we see nothing but improvement behind us [yet] expect nothing but deterioration before us” buff.ly/1HscRBL http://t.co/cKILhkKWvr—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 30, 2015
More vital information on the dangers of DHMO
17 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, health economics Tags: antiscience left, DHMO, expressive voting, green scare tactics, precautionary principle, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Is organic farming sustainable farming?
16 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: agricultural economics, food snobs, organic farming, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Do Residential Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver?
15 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmists, energy conservation, expressive voting, nanny state, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, tokenism
The researchers found that the upfront cost of efficiency upgrades of a large randomized controlled trial of 30,000 homes in Michigan came to about $5,000 per house, on average. But their central estimate of the energy savings only amounted to about $2,400 per household, on average, over the lifetime of the upgrades.
After the upgrades, homes used 10 to 20 percent less energy for electricity and heating. But, that was only about 39 percent of the savings that engineering modelers had predicted ahead of time. The program simply wasn’t as effective at saving energy as everyone thought.
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@oxfamnz @GreenpeaceNZ Further evidence of mass kidnappings of principled environmentalists – indoor pollution version
14 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: air pollution, climate alarmists, expressive voting, global warming, green hypocrisy, indoor pollution, Kuznets curve, rational irrationality, The Great Escape
The deadliest environmental problem today is indoor air pollution — killing 4 million a year. vox.com/2014/9/15/6150… http://t.co/xtwLRfkVF2—
Vox Maps (@VoxMaps) June 11, 2015
How are Paul Ehrlich’s food riots going?
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: agricultural economics, doomsday prophets, Paul Ehrlich, The Great Escape
The world uses 68% less land to produce the same amount of food compared to 50 years ago: bit.ly/1FtkmTE http://t.co/zi4RnKnJQd—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 03, 2015
Environmentalists have been losing the battle for public opinion for some time
11 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, technological progress Tags: air pollution, climate alarmism, conservation, voter demographics, water pollution
Greenpeace protesters no longer have fire in their bellies
26 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmism, expressive politics, expressive voting, global warming, Greenpeace, Leftover Left, nonviolent direct action, peaceful protests
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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