Environment - Quillette (Page 3)

The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism

The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing.

15 Aug 2019 · 8 min read

Empiricism and Dogma: Why Left and Right Can't Agree on Climate Change

Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, in which logical agents act in ways that run counter to the longterm interests of the group.

Patrick T. Brown

30 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects

The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.

Jack B. Nimble

17 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

Why We Should Embrace Our Age of Nuclear

Twenty-nine of the 34 members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted this week to declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene or geological age of humans.

Michael Shellenberger

24 May 2019 · 9 min read

Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and the Green New Deal

With the Green New Deal, secular apocalyptic ideas have entered the mainstream of American politics. Millenarian thinking has always been present in the US, but it was avowedly religious.

David Adler

21 May 2019 · 11 min read

How Anti-Humanism Conquered the Left

There are some notable environmentalists who recognize the fact that humans are capable of creating abundance instead of scarcity.

Chelsea Follett

1 May 2019 · 7 min read

Our Suicidal Elites

The mixing of environmentalism and socialism may yet become a mortal threat to the current oligarchy. In the American plutocrat-funded Democratic Party, there is more support for socialism than for capitalism.

Joel Kotkin

30 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Teenage Climate-Change Protestors Have No Idea What They’re Protesting

Our decisions tend to be rooted not in scientific analysis but in emotional reaction; and we tend to see protest not as a tool for social or legislative change, but simply as a chance to upset the status quo.

Felix Kirkby

25 Apr 2019 · 4 min read

Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism

A workplace strike shows company owners and management that workers are able to harm them economically. A school strike, on the other hand, constitutes a form of self-harm, undertaken to attract adult attention.

Paulina Neuding

23 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

When a Question of Science Brooks No Dissent

Back in December 2012, six days after a mass shooting ended the lives of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown

Myles Weber

1 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists

We know enough to understand that we should be taking serious action. The fact that the only groups advocating action at the moment are demanding questionable strategies doesn’t change that.

Mallen Baker

16 Mar 2019 · 13 min read

Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet

Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.

Michael Shellenberger

27 Feb 2019 · 10 min read

Plastic Pollution is a Real Problem—and It Won't Be Solved by Straw Bans

Majority of micro-plastics emerge as a waste product from the laundering of synthetic clothing and the wear-down of synthetic rubber automobile tyres.

Andrew Glover

5 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

The Right Needs To Grow Up On Environmentalism

All of us hope to enjoy our lives, of course, but much of what we do to help our fellow men, our children, and our children’s children involves sacrificing our immediate enjoyment for the sake of their interests.

Ben Sixsmith

25 Jan 2019 · 10 min read

Population and Policy—A Rejoinder to Szurmak and Desrochers

S&D argue that market economies will fix all negative side-effects of technological development spontaneously because of the commercial value of the effluents.

Christian Berggren

22 Dec 2018 · 5 min read