Category Archives: Environment

The One Minute Case Against Environmentalism

Environmentalism versus humanity The premise behind the environmentalist movement is the belief that nature untouched by human influence has inherent moral value independently of its benefit to mankind, and therefore the influence of man, and especially that of industrial civilization, is immoral. What leading environmentalists oppose is not the threat to human life posed by …

June 6, 2007 – 5:39 pm | By David Veksler | Posted in Environment, Politics | Tagged , , , | Comments (13)

The One Minute Case Against Malthusianism

The origin of apocalyptic overpopulation theory In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus argued that the growth in the food supply is linear, whereas the growth in the population rate is exponential. Whenever the population exceeds the food supply, social turmoil erupts until drastic checks such as famines, wars, and epidemics …

May 26, 2007 – 5:56 pm | By David Veksler | Posted in Economics, Environment | Tagged , | Comments (1)

The One Minute Case Against Global Warming Alarmism

Earth’s climate is complex and constantly changing Earth’s climate is an enormously complex system with thousands of variables in constant flux. Natural cycles of warming and cooling have existed as long as earth has had a climate. We only began to make large-scale measurements in the last 100 years, so this system is poorly understood. …

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May 22, 2007 – 3:09 pm | By David Veksler | Posted in Environment, Politics, Science | Tagged , , | Comments (58)