Shortly after my wife graduated from college, she joined Zero Population Growth. Looking back, she tells me it was an emotional reaction fueled by reading Paul Ehrlich’s apocalyptic claims. In his book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich wrote: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will … Continue reading The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis
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Go here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! In what its supporters have claimed is “visionary,” congressional media darling Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) has released her short-awaited Green New Deal, and she has called for nothing short of the destruction of life as we have known it: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has … Continue reading AOC’s Green New Deal Is a U.S. Version of Mao’s Disastrous Great Leap Forward
Click here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! Implementing the Green New Deal resolution would place significant though hard-to-quantify costs on Americans, according to a preliminary analysis by The Heritage Foundation that hints at the total burden. Granted, generating a cost estimate for a plan that is nebulously defined and lacks specificity … Continue reading A Glimpse of What the Green New Deal Would Cost Taxpayers
The Green New Deal will have the same bad outcomes as the old New Deal. It’s been eviscerated by economists, pounded by political analysts, and sunk in the Senate. Yet the Green New Deal is still part of the public discourse and is still lending political traction to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In that context, the … Continue reading The Not so New Green Deal
Congress is imposing the Green New Deal, piece by piece. Sign here to tell Congress to stop the Green New Deal! Last week, environmental activist and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org, Bill McKibben, sent a valentine to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey arguing that the Green New Deal, far from resulting … Continue reading Economist: The Green New Deal Is Built on Fear, Not Facts
Congress is planning to implement the Green New Deal, piece by piece. Sign here to tell Congress to stop the Green New Deal! Many of us watched the viral video in horror. A starving polar bear scavenging for food on barren land, his ribs visible beneath a jaundiced white coat. “This is what climate change … Continue reading The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining
Sign here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! The “Green New Deal” will fail for many reasons. One is that the people pushing it seem oblivious to the needs of poor and minorities families, who would be directly hurt by the plan. By one estimate, that Green New Deal would cost $600,000 … Continue reading ‘Green New Deal’ Would Hit Minorities the Hardest
Sign here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! Today, CNN is televising a "climate crisis town hall" for Democratic presidential candidates. Meanwhile, Hurricane Dorian, after tearing through the Bahamas, is menacing Florida and the East Coast. The candidates will surely point to the hurricane as they call for drastic measures against climate … Continue reading Could the Green New Deal Create More Climate Victims Than It Saves?
Sign here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! On Feb. 7, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and US Sen. Ed Markey introduced legislation known as the Green New Deal. You’ve probably heard of it. It’s a big deal, to paraphrase Joe Biden. The History of New Deals Wikipedia, the internet’s fountain of knowledge, … Continue reading 44 Things You Should Know about the Green New Deal
"The Limits of Clean Energy" is the title of an article by Jason Hickel in Foreign Policy, with the sub-title “If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels.” Here’s the opening: The conversation about climate change has been blazing ahead in recent months. Propelled by the school climate strikes … Continue reading The Environmental Costs of Renewable Energy Are Staggering
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