Environmentalism

June 23, 2019 – Jarrett Stepman …… Studies have found that “environmentally-friendly” reusable bags create few green benefits and are rather unsanitary.

March 28, 2019 – Randall Holcombe …… If Californians were really serious about mitigating global warming, their policies would be designed to encourage people to move to their state, where people’s carbon footprints are naturally lower because of the favorable climate. Instead, California has an anti-green environmental agenda that pushes people to live in places with higher carbon footprints.

March 25, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… It’s time to admit the recycling mania is a giant placebo.

March 23, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… Contrary to the myth that libertarians favor limitless pollution by capitalists, libertarian legal regimes would often put polluters out of business.

January 5, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… French protests over a new climate-change-inspired fuel tax highlight high costs imposed on ordinary people by climate-change policies.

December 21, 2018 – Robert Murphy …… The climate interventionists won’t stop with a carbon tax. How do I know? Because they’ve said so.

November 10, 2018 – Chris Calton …… Private entrepreneurs have solved many environmental problems by finding ways to turn garbage into something people were willing to pay for.

October 16, 2018 – Jon Miltimore …… Humanity, we’re essentially told, is doomed lest people concede their freedom to the experts, lawmakers, and bureaucrats who can save us.

September 15, 2018 – Randy Simmons …… Human systems and the systems that create climate changes are nonlinear and dynamic and, therefore, quite unpredictable.