Author Archive for Einar Du Rietz
Einar Du Rietz is a journalist and communications consultant based in Europe. He has authored several environmental reports for the Electrolux Group and loads of blogs for the Center for the New Europe at CNE Environment.
Peace Please
by Einar Du Rietz As military war is possibly the worst threat to humanity and the environment, alongside with famine caused by socialised economies, the Nobel Peace Price, is indeed one of of top events of the year. And constantly debated. This year, as well as previous. The usual questions are: Should it really go [...]
Safety First – But No Terrorism Please
by Einar Du Rietz Reluctant to write anything nice about Greenpeace, I still feel obliged to extend some compliments for their recent action at two nuclear plants in Sweden. In order to, apart from being against nuclear, and energy in General, draw attention to the importance of safety, a group, all non Swedes, broke in [...]
Hit The Road
by Einar Du Rietz My esteemed colleague Teresa Küchler at SvD in Brussels, draw my attention to the rather awkward debate in the budget negotiations in the European Parliament, concerning the, apparently, no less awkward Copenhagen based, EU financed, European Environment Agency. The EEA, in their own words, have a noble cause: “Our task is to [...]
They Still Sing
by Einar Du Rietz About 50 years ago, the book Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson was published, and triggered an environmental debate that has been going on since then. Lot’s of articles are written about this these days, and, Cato Institute, among others, has published an essay collection. Carson passed away in 1964, and I [...]
New Concepts – Constructive Ideas
by Einar Du Rietz Some years ago, my esteemed colleague and friend Edgar Gärtner coined the concept Eco Nihilism, describing it as the worst threat to common sense in the environmental debate, and consequently to the environment. I somehow love innovative, conclusive expressions. This is a new one Noble Cause Corruption, coined by Anthony Watts. (To [...]
The Fat Lady Doesn’t Sing – Yet
by Einar Du Rietz You get Tosca instead. It’s a pity I could not use the brilliant headline from this article: Apocalypse Not, by Matt Ridley, in Wired Science. It sums up a lot. “Over the five decades since the success of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 and the four decades since the success of [...]
Increasing Resources
by Einar Du Rietz Oil prices might go up and down, and as for the price of petrol, in most of Europe it’s a matter of taxes. When I was a kid, in the 70′s, I was told there was some sort of Oil Cricis, and then with everything happening in the Middle East and today it’s [...]
The Summer of Science
by Einar Du Rietz Unlike other summers, this year is rightfully filled with daily news. The EU, Syria, just to mention a few and disregarding the Olympics. No tabloids with reported aliens or slight nudity in the city. For fans of science, and science fiction, however, we get our fair share. According to a most [...]
What’s That Buzz
by Einar Du Rietz You might remember the Back-to-Nature movement of the 70′s. That was a rather harmless way for people, longing for the genuine way of living, to move into the countryside to enjoy the splendor of bad, or no, plumbing. Fine with me. A general observation is that most of these people eventually [...]
Just Stay Cool
by Einar Du Rietz It was on the evening news. And then in the morning papers. The arctic ices were melting with unprecedented speed. Turns out it was Greenland and not very unprecedented. “’Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last [...]
A Cold Playground
by Einar Du Rietz Ask me about a Doom Sayer or Dr Killjoy, and I’ll direct you to Greenpeace. First, the problem was that the poles were melting (they are not, in any lasting way) and that the polar beers faced extinction (the population is increasing). Then, the prospect of drilling for gas and oil [...]
C’est en Septembre
by Einar Du Rietz Al Gore for less than a Euro. Fine with me. It’s been a while since someone mentioned that movie. Incidentally, yesterday, I friend told me that when her daughter had to watch it in class, she gave her a list with the ten worst fallacies in the movie. To her surprise, [...]
Honor as Due
by Einar Du Rietz “Welcome to the United Nations. It’s your world”, reads the top banner. Thank you very much, but I’ll stick to the part that belongs to me, while – also – doing my modest share in trying to persuade other people to please not make a mess of the rest of [...]
Beware of Atlas – He Might Shrug
by Einar Du Rietz The Rio circus is over. For now. And everyone agree that nothing really came out of it. Apart from hefty hotel bills and an even costlier wish list (more reports on cfact.org). Media is however doing its best to sell the shaky message from the UN. One report that made the [...]
CFACT Europe Author Updates Bestseller
CFACT Europe’s long time friend, writer and intellectual contributor, Dr Edgar L. Gärtner, has up-dated and republished his famous book Öko-Nihilismus (Eco Nihilism). A must read if you read German, and if you are interested in translations and publication outside the German speaking sphere, get in touch. These are the bibliographical details: Edgar L. Gärtner: [...]
