Coalition of Freedom

[...] “Population: The Ultimate Resource” (2000): Introduction by Barun Mitra appeared first on Master Resource. …read more Source: Master Resource [...]

[...] 373. The post HumanProgress.org (Julian Simon Lives! at the Cato Institute) appeared first on Master Resource. …read more Source: Master Resource [...]

[...] Cap-and-Trade Cronyism: James Hansen Weighs In (December 21, 2012) …read more Source: Master Resource [...]

[...] of nuclear engineering and policy advisor The Heartland Institute. …read more Source: Master Resource [...]

[...] progress of our material and cultural civilization.” Population and Progress With respect to population growth: A dozen competent statistical studies, starting in 1967 with an analysis by Nobel [...]

[...] population will rise only modestly after hitting a bit over 9 billion by 2050.) Granted, population growth is a huge issue in some poor countries, where it creates locally some of the instability and [...]

[...] in the poor countries in just the past four decades. The picture also is now clear that population growth does not hinder economic development. In the 1980s there was a complete reversal in the [...]

[...] .  And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.” Julian Simon was an economist and demographer who taught at the University of Maryland at [...]

[...] By mlewis To persuade Americans — especially conservatives and libertarians — that a carbon tax can “work” (reduce emissions) without harming the economy, some proponents tout British [...]

[...] In fairness, what Hansen wants in place of cap-and-trade is a version of a revenue-neutral carbon tax, which introduces its own set of problems (see the posts of Robert Murphy). But what is rather [...]

[...] the does not seem to be the political appetite in the U.S. and around the world for a massive carbon tax (‘fee and dividend’) regime to radically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (not to mention [...]

[...] his indomitable spirit, and never ending sense of inquiry. Simon viewed people to be the ultimate resource. He held that for their talents to flower and come to fruition, people require conducive [...]

[...] exchange, and the rule of law. In the condition of such liberty from government, the ultimate resource of human ingenuity is not a fixed, depleting resource. The fruit from the human mind is  [...]

[...] a) our lack of imagination, and b) unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people – especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with [...]

[...] a) our lack of imagination, and b) unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people – especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with [...]

[...] rich countries with that of poor countries to say that economic growth is the best hope for environment protection. All of this suggests to me that we should be [...]

[...] prizewinner Simon Kuznets, agree that there is no negative statistical relationship between economic growth and population growth. There is strong reason to believe that more people have a positive [...]

[...] absence of any statistical evidence of a negative connection between population increase and economic growth. And it said that “The scarcity of exhaustible resources is at most a minor restraint on [...]

[...] been both comparatively benign and relatively advantageous for the purposes of economic growth. The implications of demographic change are not restricted to the economy alone. For [...]

[...] often being the ones who fund the environmental controls and pay to reduce their environmental impacts. As the video suggests, much of the modern environmental movement panders to what we want [...]

[...] a survey of recent trends and controversies. Geography of Food: Geographical Patterns and Environmental Impacts examines the geographic patterns and environmental impacts of our food production and [...]

[...] informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using [...]

[...] informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving energy & environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using [...]

[...] very close to a textbook carbon tax, the policy is not a model for the U.S. Although the economic impacts have so far been small, BC’s experience offers no reasonable grounds for believing that a U. [...]