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 · 14 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 · 8 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 · 10 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 · 8 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 · 6 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 · 13 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 · 5 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 · 9 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 · 4 min read
The One-sided Worldview of Eco-Pessimists Pessimists see the goal of human activity as minimizing human impacts; optimists understand the goal of human activity to be maximizing human flourishing. Joanna Szurmak and Pierre Desrochers 3 Dec 2018 · 14 min read