The Environment

Washington locked up timberland to stop deforestation, while taxing Canadian lumber, which meant felling more American trees. Timothy Terrell on conservation policy, and following the money.

The government paid Southern farmers to plant kudzu—millions of acres of it—to fix a Dust Bowl the government's own policies helped create.

Humans have a tremendous amount of agency in how dangerous natural disasters end up being. Unfortunately, most politicians and government officials have become a major part of the problem. 

The very term “environmental activist” tells us that Greta and her ilk care not a whit for the betterment of mankind, except in the most theoretical and secondary way. It is the “environment” that is the end goal.

In pursuing the so-called green economy, Great Britain’s Labour Government must resort to socialist planning and totalitarian propaganda.

Connor O'Keeffe argues that California's wildfire crisis is not simply a climate story but a government failure story.

My objective is to take the socialist calculation problem and apply it to environmental economics. Environmental regulation is really a variety of government planning and is a poor foundation for policy.

Conflict over the natural world often originates in people’s different conceptions of how the natural world can and should be used. Entrepreneurship in a free market helps settle these conflicts peacefully, without one group using the power of the state to force its preferences on others.

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man. 

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made him a very wealthy man.