Paul Ryan: “Environmental issues have fallen victim to the hyper-politicization of science…”
Environment
Trick Questions on Climate Change
I wish the media was much more careful about how they report this type of junk political science.
Organic Activists Endanger Your Health: Mosquitos Need To Be Controlled
Mischa Popoff, a former organic farmer and Advanced Organic Farm and Process Inspector, looks at how the Organic movement can actually harm your health by taking the concept of “natural” to the extreme.
The Green Thing
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
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Interest Rates do not Merely Parallel Inflation Upward—the Inflation Risk Premium can Escalate too
It is not entirely clear whether the Canadian and the global economies are heading for a new inflationary era. It may turn out that inflation is not only elevated from recent negligible levels, but escalates, steadily at first, and then dramatically, as it did in the...
CUSMA the New NAFTA: Boon or Bane For Canada?
In 1994, the United States, Mexico and Canada created a free-trade region with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Considering the fact that the USA is the largest economy in the world (from 1994 to present), NAFTA was a true asset for the Canadian...
Corporate Social Responsibility in Peru
Environmental activists want to shut down a Peruvian mining operation despite its stellar record of improving its surrounding community.
Farmers are not Killing the Environment
Avery refutes the idea that farms are a major contributor to global warming. He says that the earth’s climate has always been changing and will continue to do so
Sound the Alarm
Canada should fight against the imposition of stifling new regulations on bioprospecting.
Protect the Boreal Forest From Abundance?
Is Canada running out of trees? From the pages of the National Post, a remarkable exchange of opposing views.
Kyoto’s Outcome in One Word
In the most recent budget, the Liberal government has set aside $5-billion to spend on its climate change strategy. Money is allocated into funds designed to buy emission credits (which can be used to help Canada meet its Kyoto target), develop technology and help provinces build or refurbish infrastructure.
Garden Chemicals and Intellectual Honesty
The Frontier Centre’s “farmer boy” locks horns with a Ph.D in ad hominems.
Facts versus Fears on Biotechnology
The misplaced opposition to genetically modified crops in the Third World violates poor people’s basic human rights.
Weed Killers Benign
Chemophobes are pressuring the City of Brandon to ban herbicides. The City should show them the door.
Death of a Movement
The great strength of the environmental movement of the 1970s and 1980s was its advocacy of small-scale, decentralized solutions to environmental problems, an advocacy that questioned big government and big unions, as well as big corporations — a more unified, inclusive effort that links traditional environmentalists with labour unions and other “progressive” communities — would only centralize power and make everything that much worse.