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Category Archives: Environmentalism
Apocalypse fatigue, philosophical variation
Pascal Bruckner, writing in City Journal, argues that secular elites prophesy a doomsday without redemption. It reads to me like a philosophical/moral variation of Steven Hayward’s more political apocalypse fatigue. (The “issue-attention cycle” applied to the green movement.) From Bruckner’s … Continue reading
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It’s about control, not science
James Delingpole, author of Watermelons, interviewed at Uncommon Knowledge, speaks to the persistent threat to liberty in the human heart – the collectivist impulse that recurs again and again and again, and takes many forms. At the present moment, he … Continue reading
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Speaking truth to power
A little over a year ago I blogged about an interview with Robert Bryce of Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future. From that interview: “Nine out of 10 units of power that … Continue reading
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Pop goes the green weasel
When the green bubble pops, it’s going to cost a lot of people a lot of money – both taxpayers (in the form of subsidies and other forms of failed industrial policy) and venture capitalists who succumbed to the religious … Continue reading
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Do windmills and unicorn ribs both taste like chicken?
The only promise BHOII has kept: higher energy prices. That first paragraph below is a tight summary of why the choice for the rest of my lifetime is between (a) more fossil fuels or (b) lower standard of living. Alternative … Continue reading
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Atlas grabs a smoke
This is how you get 1% growth and 0% job growth: use other people’s money to invest according to politics. Solyndra was not profitable and did not have a viable business model. So venture capitalists (using their own money) wouldn’t … Continue reading
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Green is the color of will. And money.
I haven’t seen the movie Green Lantern, but I understand that the color green denotes the power of will, while yellow denotes the power of fear. Combine that with its longstanding association as the color of money and it serves … Continue reading
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APOF XXIX
From the Gliese 581 system: GJ581d, a super-Earth that was at first thought to be too cold to support liquid water, may, due to the greenhouse effect, be warm enough after all. Thank Gaia for the greenhouse effect, otherwise we’d … Continue reading
The only promise kept: higher energy prices
After 40 years of energy panic we may have finally hit Stage 5 of the issue-attention cycle, this time green: Apocalypse Fatigue. It’s a conspiracy of physics that will keep “green energy” a de minimis part of our energy consumption … Continue reading
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