Environment - Quillette (Page 2)

As City Budgets Shrink, It's Time to Rethink Recycling Programs

Instead of relying on impractical edicts from politicians, and the costly labor of municipal employees who gather a jumble of mostly worthless material that needs to be sorted, let the market determine what’s worth recycling, and let private operators figure out how to collect it efficiently.

Howard Husock and John Tierney

21 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak

What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.

Michael Shellenberger

29 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

A NASA scientist predicted simultaneous collapses of food systems on multiple continents at once.

Michael Shellenberger

8 Jul 2020 · 37 min read

Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics

To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.

Javier Arcos Hódar

1 Jul 2020 · 15 min read

Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct

A consensus has grown in the UK among Conservatives and much of Labour that it needs nuclear not just for climate change but also to reduce its dependence on imported natural gas.

Michael Shellenberger

25 Jun 2020 · 13 min read

Is State Protection a Threat to Liberal Democracy?

Protection at the cost of a planned economy and a surveillance state would be no protection at all.

Ross Stitt

10 Jun 2020 · 12 min read

Moving Away from Meat Means Welcoming the New 'Flexitarians'

Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.

Ari David Blaff

29 May 2020 · 6 min read

Capitalism or the Climate?

Technological knowledge, fueled by capital, has allowed us to do many things categorically unlike the achievements of other species as far as we know.

Saul Zimet

17 May 2020 · 14 min read

How To Think About Our Problems

To plan for problems ahead, such as droughts, was a better survival strategy than expecting an eternity of bountiful harvests.

Marian L. Tupy

19 Feb 2020 · 6 min read

Market Solutions to Climate Change: An Opportunity for Bipartisanship

Progressive environmentalists should welcome the addition of young conservatives to the broader environmentalist movement, but they must check some of their legislative ambitions at the door in order to pass meaningful, effective environmentalist policies.

Nate Hochman

28 Jan 2020 · 6 min read

The Growth Dilemma

The prospect of stagnating incomes amidst ruinous pension and other costs comprise a toxic cocktail with potentially profound de-stabilizing effects.

Joel Kotkin

9 Jan 2020 · 11 min read

False Humility Will Not Save the Planet

The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.

Maarten Boudry

2 Jan 2020 · 13 min read

Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario

The activist group Extinction Rebellion is telling us that climate change represents “an unprecedented global emergency” and is calling for radical measures to deal with it.

Dagfinn Reiersøl

7 Nov 2019 · 11 min read

Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing

Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.

Pascal Bruckner

14 Sep 2019 · 25 min read

War at the Tip of a Rhino Horn

What the Rangers do they do on behalf of all of us—for every rhino loss is a global loss.

Nathan Edmondson

10 Sep 2019 · 9 min read