All Entries Tagged With: "Environmentalism"
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 [...]
Innovation Saves The World It Makes Go Round
by Einar Du Rietz I love a sunny story and the most recent one I stumbled upon, cherished in the environmental movement, is a recent innovation – still under development – of a new method to turn toxic textile.factory effluent into clean water. Go for it, Maria Jonstrup! One of the most disturbing ingredients of [...]
London Olympics drops carbon offsets
Greens see red as organizers cut waste When London submitted its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, it sweetened its offer with a promise “to purchase emission reduction credits and to invest directly in clean energy projects in the developing world to offset … emissions.” Organizers estimated that “international travel to London by competitors, [...]
British aristocrats cash in on wind
Regressive redistribution as working people pay landed rich to despoil the British countryside The Telegraph reports that British nobles, including Dukes and a cousin of the Queen are cashing in on tax and ratepayer subsidies to erect wind farms on their country estates. Each turbine can net a noble £20,000 a year or more. Prime [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What the green movement got wrong
British documentary exposes green “misanthropy, exaggeration and damage” Britain’s Channel 4′s What the Green Movement Got Wrong features former green campaigners explaining how radical ideology warped environmentalism, preventing it from conserving nature and causing unintended harm. Channel 4′s decision to air this documentary is the latest evidence that the media is finally moving away from [...]
Greens realize worth of nuclear energy and GM foods
The Daily Telegraph reports that green campaigners are abandoning old prejudices and embracing nuclear energy and genetically modified foods. The activists now say that by opposing nuclear power they encouraged the use of polluting coal-fired power stations, while by protesting against GM crops they prevented developing countries from benefiting from a technology that could have [...]
At Least – Leave Those Kids Alone
by Einar Du Rietz, Bonn I feel old sometimes. I’m not, according to my doctor, but I’m at least not “Youth”, as defined by the United Nations to be between the age of 15 and 24 (for the first three years in there, you also have the privilege of being “child” at the same time). [...]
A Wonderful World With a Constructive Tomorrow
Louis Armstrong’s Optimism This Earth Day join us as we celebrate nature and renew our commitment to genuine conservation. Individual freedom is the way to a cleaner, greener world.
Wind Turbines No Friends to Eagles
Christopher Booker makes some excellent points about the toll wind turbines take on eagles and other birds in the Daily Telegraph. While wind turbines are known to knock birds (particularly soaring birds) from the sky, Mr. Booker should also take note of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds study which concluded that the [...]
CFACT meets Greenpeace
If you follow CFACT you probably have seen Lord Christopher Monckton’s speech the Second International Climate Conference in Berlin. If not, you can see it here, or over at CFACT.TV. But there’s more juice from that day. A Lifestyle and Ideology supplier called Greenpeace sent its members to protest against the conference. Some Greenpeace activists held [...]
Gone With the Wind: Carbon Millionaires Arrested for Fraud
Italian Wind Fraud Investigation Extends to the Netherlands, UK, Ireland, and Spain. Subsidies Questioned. For some carbon millionaires, lining their pockets legally through taxpayer subsidies and hand outs is not enough. They choose to cheat even though they’re playing a game that’s already rigged.
