Environmentalism

Today almost 15,000 environmental groups are registered with the IRS, according to the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics (100 in Colorado alone). They are financed by foundations and corporations at the rate of $38 million a day, making environmental activism a $14 billion industry in the U.S. alone.

A real rock from outer space (not manmade climate change) is causing perceived rising seas.

By adopting the theory that the Earth is getting dangerously hot and we’re to blame, the eco-Right has surrendered in the Left’s war on science and are little more than stooges for Big Green.

According to climate activists, air travel—and especially private air travel—is one of the most wasteful and unnecessary sources of carbon dioxide emissions and a major cause of climate change.

Banning neonic pesticides in wildlife refuges would hurt birds, bees, other wildlife and people.

Last year, natural gas usage grew faster than renewables in the United States. But advocates of green energy policies would eliminate gas for heating and cooking.

Social and economic crises, real and imagined, often seem to bring out the most wrongheaded thinking in matters of government policy.

Trillions of pieces of plastic are creating huge garbage patches in the world’s oceans.  One company’s efforts to do something about this problem can lead us to rethink some perceived economic wisdom.

When Thomas Edison established his Pearl Street power plant in New York City in 1892, he used coal for fuel, not wood.

Environmental principles are too often used to stop lawful, responsible, vital land uses. We need rational rules to protect environmental values – and meet essential societal needs.

Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves?

 In a room 20 feet by 20 feet with a ten foot ceiling, how many matches would you have to light for the air in that room to have the same percentage of carbon dioxide as the atmosphere from the annual emissions of all the automobiles (about 800 million) in the world?

While efforts to reduce plastic pollution are needed, the campaign missed the mark by emphasizing measures to eliminate the use of plastics.