A growing middle class in China is being credited with pushing the normally opaque Chinese government to deal with air pollution. If this is true, it lends support to the idea that environmental improvement is part of economic growth.
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Trampling on People, Environment, Science and Ethics: Environmental policies and practitioners often hurt people and values they supposedly protect
Policy integrity. Ethical culture. Environmental protection. Environmental defense. Friends of earth. Defenders of wildlife. Ethical investing. Not just their names, but their charter, culture and policies – their very being – represent a commitment to these profound values. Or so we are supposed to believe.
Biofuel Subsidies and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The environmental benefits of biofuel subsidies are dubious, and these subsidies have the disastrous unintended consequence of making it harder for the poorest people in the world to feed their families.
Back From the Brink of Extinction: Woods bison, muskeg swamps and Canadian oil sands prove energy and wildlife coexist
The last woods bison in the United States was apparently shot by a hunter in West Virginia around 1835. For many decades, the woods bison was presumed extinct – until an airplane spotted an isolated herd in the muskeg swamps north of Alberta, Canada. I was delighted to actually see another herd of the nearly extinct animals calmly munching on hay – right in the middle of the oil sands mining project in northern Alberta, which I visited a few weeks ago. Much of this oil is destined for the USA, to reduce imports from dictatorships, and more will come in the Keystone XL Pipeline, if President Obama ever approves it.
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Trade with Mercosur: Opportunities for Canada
In November 2018, Canada and Mercosur opened negotiations for a free trade agreement. The Mercosur, composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (Venezuela is a suspended member from 2016), represents a bloc representing a GDP of over $3 trillion and a...
San Francisco to Canada: Hate Motivated Crimes—Thinking Globally and Acting Locally
San Francisco, by all accounts a liberal city of diverse communities, is in the grips of what by many is seen as a spree of racist attacks against its Black and Asian residents. According to some reports, anti-Asian crimes have more than doubled while hate crimes...
Brison Coy on Convention Plans
Scott Brison isn’t yet saying which of the other federal Liberal leadership candidates will receive his support in the convention less than two weeks away.
Nothing to Fear from a Bigfoot
Peter Foster’s response to the recently released World Wildlife Fund for Nature’s 2006 Living Planet Report.
A Critique of the “Stern Review” on the Economics of Climate Change
The authors of the Stern Review say the world is looking at costs in the range of $10 trillion dollars if we don’t impose news taxes and regulations to curtail carbon dumping. Unfortunately, their analysis is blatant nonsense.
The Real Climate Change Catastrophe
Misguided energy policies are harming the world’s poor by impeding their technological development and their economy.
Royal Society Must Apologize for Suppressing Climate Debate
The Royal Society is wrong to join the chorus of global warming advocates in saying there is no debate to be had – climate change is a consequence of human activity and anybody who says otherwise is to be scorned.
We Solve More Problems Than We Create
Mr. Lomborg is a realist. He doesn’t expect miracles from political leaders and bureaucrats, hoping instead for “getting it slightly less wrong.” An appropriately modest proposal from the skeptical environmentalist
A Phony Study Deludes the Nation
The newly named Canadian Environmental Defence Fund bangs the bushes for money with another scary “study.”
Alligator Eats A Crow
Ag Policy Fellow Rolf Penners eats a Crow
Pesticides are Designed to Kill Life
Pesticides are Designed to Kill Life