The Roots of Recession
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Environment
A collection of 70 posts
Apocalypse Soon?
Earth Day once helped focus public attention on real environmental problems. Today it is a festival of alarmism, misanthropy, technophobia, and moral theatrics.
Henry I. Miller
· 8 min read
Life’s Ancient Bottleneck
Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.
Jack Lohmann
· 8 min read
Saving the Animals
Assuring the long-term future of Earth’s wildlife requires more economic and technological development, not less.
Saul Zimet
· 13 min read
Fighting Fire with Fire
We know how to prevent catastrophic bushfires. For more than half a century, Western Australia has been reducing forest fuel loads through a systematic program of ‘prescribed burns.’
Brad Barr
· 9 min read
Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis
Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
How Santa Ana Winds Are Fuelling the Deadly fires in LA
It’s very hard to extinguish a fire under these conditions.
Jon Keeley
· 4 min read
Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time
The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.
Frank Celia
· 17 min read
Net Zero and the Law of Diminishing Returns
Civilisation has always been dependent on energy.
Noel Yaxley
· 9 min read
The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear
It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.
Regis Nicoll
· 6 min read
Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities
We must find ways to combat climate change without incurring devastating inflation, greater class division, the immiseration of the middle class, and the destitution of the poor.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 15 min read
California's Energy War on the Poor
California continues to implement policies on energy, housing, and transportation that are anti-poor and anti-working class.
Robert Bryce
· 11 min read
Washington Post and NPR Ignore the Rural Backlash Against Renewables
During my three decades as a reporter, I’ve seen plenty of hype and poor news coverage about renewable energy. But two recent pieces—in the Washington Post and National Public Radio, respectively—are particularly egregious. These reports demonstrate, yet again, that some of the biggest media entities in the
Robert Bryce
· 12 min read
Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists
The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read
A Perfect Storm: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises
The major food staples are essential to human survival. Chocolate and coffee are not essential, but try to imagine a world without them. One of the numerous concerns with climate change is that many species will lose their habitats. Scientists are projecting that, in the coming decades, this could lead
Randall Mayes
· 10 min read