More People, More Prosperity: The Simon Abundance Index The Simon Abundance Index 2024 finds Earth’s resources 509% more plentiful than in 1980. Marian L. Tupy 22 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Are Climate Doomers for Real? Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously. Maarten Boudry 18 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally. Gerfried Ambrosch 15 Feb 2024 · 11 min read
Getting Better All the Time Hannah Ritchie’s new book offers reasons to be cheerful about the present and the future. Sean Welsh 15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
The Carbon-Neutral Dumpster Fire RTÉ’s ludicrous environmentalist docudrama Tomorrow Tonight reflects the Irish state’s perverse commitment to a politics of self-harm. Aidan Harte 10 Dec 2023 · 8 min read
Net Zero and the Law of Diminishing Returns Civilisation has always been dependent on energy. Noel Yaxley 6 Dec 2023 · 8 min read
Beyond Davos If the Davos crowd has demonstrated anything, it is the futility of their posturing. Joel Kotkin 27 Feb 2023 · 11 min read
It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition Zion Lights 10 Dec 2022 · 13 min read
Germany's Energy Catastrophe If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession. Lea Booth 14 Jul 2022 · 8 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 27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read
Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left The coronavirus pandemic has caused massive backtracking and spin-doctoring among progressive parties over bioengineered vaccines. Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle 21 Oct 2021 · 16 min read
The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism For too long traditional environmentalism has led the way with unscientific beliefs and ideologies, attacking anyone who holds opposing opinions, while demanding that the world’s largest cake be baked without flour. Zion Lights 31 May 2021 · 8 min read
BirthStrike: The Movement to End All Movements Is BirthStrike a luxury belief? William Costello and Freya India 20 Jan 2021 · 8 min read
The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing. Michael Shellenberger 15 Aug 2019 · 7 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
