It has been just over half a century since the first Earth Day in 1970. Over that time, April 22 has turned into a day with lots of waste cleanup […]
Tag: Environmentalism
Greta Thunberg’s War Against Wind Farms
Greta Thunberg is back in the news. This time, she’s protesting the installation of wind farms in Norway. Earlier this month, Thunberg and several activists chained themselves to the doorway […]
An All-Electric-Vehicle Industry? Really?
Our country appears to be on a pathway to completely replace gas-fired cars with electric cars. “President Biden has set a goal of bringing the nation’s emissions down to net […]
ESG Investing: Today’s Virtue of Tomorrow’s Taboo?
Pundits have both praised and vilified Biden’s recent veto of House Joint Resolution 30, which dealt with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in investing. In doing so, Biden diluted […]
How Did We Get Here: The Coming Standardization for Policy Implementation of ESG
The acronym ESG (representing environmental, social, and governance criteria for investment and business metrics) gained mainstream attention in 2020, and has since been political fodder for those wishing to weigh […]
ESG: What Bureaucrats and Buyers Want but the World Doesn’t Need
The expectation for firms to disclose information regarding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters is receiving increased attention in the mainstream media, and rightly so. ESG-based investments along with ESG-related […]
Lust for Power is More Dangerous Than Climate Claims
Government bureaucrats and international agencies point to impending “doomsday” events, often due to climate change. Recent headlines demonstrate an alarming number of apocalyptic forecasts by intellectuals and government officials. Two […]
Green Energy is the Modern “Broken Window”
John Goodell studied literature at Berkeley, then got an M.F.A. at Columbia. He has edited Zyzzyva, a literary magazine in San Francisco, and been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. […]
Climate Conferences Fail on Deforestation
United Nations climate conferences typically reach their peak just as they close, when they unveil to the world whatever new international agreements have been signed between politicians supposedly committing to […]
Reddy or Not, Winter Is Coming
Can you imagine scanning the skies, seeing it’s a calm, overcast day, and then realizing you’re in danger? That is the energy world environmentalists are pushing us into. The looming […]