PowerPoint slides which accompanied Rainer Knopff’s speech Hunting for Habitat: On the Private Production of Ecological Goods and Services that he gave in Calgary on February 28, 2013.
Environment
Earth Hour Is a Colossal Waste of Time—and Energy: Plus, it ignores how electricity has been a boon for humanity.
On the evening of March 23, 1.3 billion people will go without light at 8:30—and at 9:30, and at 10:30, and for the rest of the night—just like every other night of the year. With no access to electricity, darkness after sunset is a constant reality for these people.
Looking For a Better Way to Sell the Keystone Pipeline: Global warming is a place to start
Governments and industry must change their marketing of the Keystone XL pipeline to address the single reason the project may not be approved—climate change.
Our Real Manmade Climate Crisis: The crisis is due not to climate change, but to actions taken in the name of preventing change
In his first address as Secretary of State, John Kerry said we must safeguard “the most sacred trust” we owe to our children and grandchildren: “an environment not ravaged by rising seas, deadly superstorms, devastating droughts, and the other hallmarks of a dramatically changing climate.”
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Profile Series: Arthur Laffer
“Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.” Arthur Betz “Art” Laff er is one of the world’s most renowned...
Even After Banning Crypto, Does Communist China Have Greater Faith in Crypto Than the West?
Canadian and British regulators are on an entirely different wavelength to a significant portion of the cryptocurrency market and industry, implementing new regulations and casting doubt on the future of decentralized digital currencies. It comes at a time when China...
Temperature Shift or Measurement Shift?
A fast overview of the issue of land-based temperature measurement and the difficulties presented by urban heat islands.
Is it too Late to Stop the Ethanol Con Job?
Not so long ago, you could feel complacent - smug even - about your little greenish exertions. You traded your SUV for a smaller set of wheels. You bought compact florescent bulbs and dragged the old push mower out of storage. You approved of ethanol and other...
Poverty Policies Tend to Impoverish
The poor suffer the most collateral damage when policy is designed for the few, not the many.
Quebec May Ban Some Dishwashing Detergents
Quebec could restrict the sale of dishwashing detergent containing phosphates if the federal government doesn't ban the product to help control blue-green algae, Quebec Environment Minister Line Beauchamp said yesterday. Speaking after a tour of three Outaouais lakes...
Rescuing Lake Winnipeg with Better Public Policy
How banning grey water septic fields produced more raw sewage spills in cottage country.
Martian Questions for the Premiers
Martians and earthlings should scratch their heads on evolving alien policy contraptions being clapped together by premiers.
The Other ‘Clash of Civilisations’
In his seminal Environment Court decision, Marlborough Ridge v Marlborough District Council, Judge Jackson said “there is a distinct thread in the RMA which takes an economic approach to sustainable management of natural and physical...
Live Earth Remedy Deadly for Africans
Poor countries have more important things to worry about than climate change, like whether they will have electricity for refrigerators, lights and modern homes, hospitals, schools, offices and factories.
Wealth, Civilization: It’s All in Your Head
What if humanity disappeared tomorrow? According to Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, in an interview with Scientific American, nature would reclaim the planet awfully quickly. In the event of an ecumenical rapture or a 12 Monkeys-style plague, Manhattan's...