All Entries in the "Human Rights" Category
Let’s Just Enjoy
by Einar Du Rietz Sidewalks are slippery, with the newly arrived and thus unusual European winter. Traffic is as bad as every year and people are frantic to make last minute purchases. Then comes another old tradition, with a new name. It used to be some mumbo jumbo about not exploiting something, now the young [...]
Friendly Smokers Hit back
by Einar Du Rietz Don’t you agree? On the anti smoking issue, that is. On the one hand, people in general are just giving up, resigning in the face of oppression and harassment. On the other, some – maybe an increasing amount of people – are beginning to feel that enough is enough. Some even [...]
Crowded? Not really
by Einar Du Rietz Just found out that (according to BBC): “When you were born, you were the:3,453,632,094th person alive on Earth and 77,442,249,607thperson to have lived since history began” Go on, take the test. Don’t know what it’s really good for, but it’s a bit of fun, at least if you are easily amused. And [...]
Video: Why we need affordable Energy
Just follow the link: Halloween Light Show
Immobility Week
by Einar Du Rietz The Mobility Week is on again. The sort of expansion of the Green Week/In Town Without my Car Week, sponsored by the EU and participating cities, in other words tax money to make life harder for people. This has been a yearly event for ten years now, making lives more difficult. I [...]
That Stupid War
by Einar Du Rietz It’s old news, but hey, that’s history for you. A new booktakes a look at both the history of the cold war and the environmental movement. And especially environmental impact from both. You may not agree with everything, but sometimes it’s important to remember how absurd the world really was in [...]
Otto von Habsburg-Lothingen, RIP
CFACT mourns the loss of Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg, a great European and advocate for individual freedom and dignity. CFACT will be well represented at the funeral in Vienna with both Holger Thuss and Einar Du Rietz attending. He will [...]
Will The World Be Enough?
by Einar Du Rietz Bureaucracies and weed have the thing in common that when not controlled, they grow beyond control. The same goes for governmental organisations, supra national or others, with the addition that it’s most often difficult even to find out who’s in charge, what the mandate is, not to mention the plan. Delegates [...]
Expectations Low for Cancun after Chinese Failure
by Einar Du Rietz According to reports from the recent preparatory climate conference in China, the so called world leaders – most eager to show off in Copenhagen a year ago – are trying to avoid even showing up for the conference in Cancun, instead commissioning their ministers for environment to take the embarrassment. One enlightning [...]
End Game or Mid Term – Bonn
by Einar Du Rietz, Bonn The game is not over yet, but the climate talks in Bonn are. For the time being. Another session is already scheduled for August, and it might very well be that the free-lunchers will squeeze yet another in, during the buildup of expectations before Cancun. After the enormous debacle before, during [...]
And Now For the Good News
by Einar Du Rietz How splendid in this often pessimist debate, to get the chance to present some good news! According to the global health statistics from WHO, things are going in the right direction, in some cases remarkably well. Since 1990, infant mortality has decreased by 30 percent. Malnutrition is going down, access to drinking [...]
Create Prosperity – Not Hypocrisy
by Einar Du Rietz Investing your money and savings for your pension in funds that advertise themselves as more “ethical” than others? Maybe it’s time to think again. Environmental watchdogs are increasingly pointing out funds as dubious, because of investments in different energy companies. In a recent – undercover – study (Swedish) non of the [...]
Allègre con brio: last stance at the OK Corral
Former government minister Claude Allègre is once more to be hailed for fighting the “consensus”, as his recent book is high on the best-seller lists. Yes, discussion is possible; no, scientific progress is not a matter of international voting to find the truth. (This would be comparable to letting the dictatorship countries vote on human [...]
Lord Monckton: IPCC “At It Again” in Bonn
U.N. makes new push for climate treaty in Bonn this April. Treaty would infringe national sovereignty without benefit to world climate. LORD CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON (Wisconsin)
Climate Policy’s Third World Threat
Barun Mitra and Manuel de Araujo Address CFACT’s International Climate Eco-Summit (I.C.E.) in Copenhagen Thanks to Jody Clarke and the Atlas Foundation for their sponsorship of Barun Mitra’s and Manuel de Araujo’s Presentations in Copenhagen.
