63 Articles tagged with: Environment and Energy

• Is Industry For or Against the Paris Climate Agreement?

  In his speech withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump cited an econometric study by National Economic Research Associates. The study, which is both credible and alarming, speculated that meeting the emissions targets could cost … Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Robert Bradley

  1) Tell us who you are? What’s the couple of sentence summary of what you do and what you’ve done?

  I am a classical-liberal intellectual, or at least a student of classical liberalism.

  I specialize in energy history and public policy.… Read Article

• Environmentalist War on California Water

  You might think environmentalism is a benign set of ideas promulgated by well-meaning idealists whose efforts are occasionally hijacked by extremists. If so, a close look at the politics behind the ongoing California water shortage will cause you … Read Article

• Dishonest Attacks on Genetically Modified Organisms

  For those who take their health seriously, it’s always a challenge to determine which claims are true and which are fiction. This task is made more difficult by those who, either out of malice or shear ignorance, spread misinformation. One examp… Read Article

• How to Think about Global Warming

  At The Atlas Society, we defend industrial capitalism against irrational environmentalist attacks. That doesn’t mean Objectivism equates to global warming denial.… Read Article

• Earth Day’s Subtle Pollution

  On the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, my high school class traveled to the Mall in D.C. to mark the occasion. Me? I skipped the trip. Instead, I stayed home to watch the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft return to Earth. My classmates and I had di… Read Article

• Eggs, Global Warming, and Science

  The arguments for man-made global warming remind me of the argument that eating eggs causes heart disease. 

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• Samuel Insull: Human Dynamo

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- He was, arguably, the most inspirational success story of the business era immediately preceding the New Deal. He was the John D. Rockefeller of the electric-utility industry: the man who during forty years repeatedly lower… Read Article

• Climate Kerfuffle on Cosmos

  I’m a big fan of the Cosmos reboot series, just as I was of the Carl Sagan original. But the host Neil deGrasse Tyson recently stumbled very unscientifically when discussing climate change. 

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• Energy: The Return of Ellis Wyatt?

  Atlas Summit 2013 -- Energy is at the center of Atlas Shrugged, whether in the present with Wyatt Oil and Danagger Coal or in the future with Galt's Motor. Ayn Rand understood that energy was the master resource; that energy comes from the mind … Read Article

• Obama's Power Move: Scapegoating Speculators

   In this archive article, investor Walter Donway looks at the anatomy of scapegoating and how speculators' actions are misunderstood by the public.

  On April 17, President Barrack Obama addressed Americans about rising prices of gasoline,… Read Article

• Elementary Lessons in Property Rights

  June 2005 -- “A man’s home is his castle.”

  Americans recently learned that this is more than a mere cliché; it’s a profound philosophical principle that is under fire from the very institutions that are supposed to protect it.&n… Read Article

• Animal Rights

  Question: Don't animals have rights too?

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• Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists

   February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country, thereby becoming the latest in a string of radical environmental groups to move into the media … Read Article

• Nature and Wilderness

  Question: Why are Ayn Rand followers so against nature and wilderness? They seem to feel everything on earth is for our pleasure and to heck with the natural world and its wildlife. This keeps me from really getting into the whole idea.

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• The Politics of Mutual Plunder

  As the prices of oil, gasoline, and natural gas have skyrocketed over the past year, many people have demanded that the government do something about it. They have short memories. The last “energy crisis,” complete with fossil-fuel shortages… Read Article

• Why Ecology Requires Economics

  BOOK REVIEW: Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking Penguin, 2005), 575 pp., $29.95.

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• Death by Environmentalism

  What does it mean in practice to hold a philosophy that declares that pristine nature has intrinsic value in itself, and that regards Man and his activities as intrusive threats to the so-called ecological balance?

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• Green Machine

  Reprinted from the IOS Journal Volume 3, Number 2, May 1993

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• Burning Stupid: Bad Forest Management in the West

  September 6, 2001 -- The mountains are ablaze. The chickens of the radical environmental movement have come home to roast. … Read Article