environmentalism

Attractive female doctor in front of medical group

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Science, medical, and bioethics journals are setting themselves up as the new political resistance to Trump policies, most particularly around global warming controversies. JAMA has just published a column decrying Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and claiming that preventing climate change is now up to doctors. Read More ›

Miner hands holding lithium rocks extracted from rock ore. Mining for lithium, a key component of batteries

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 9, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

Will “Nature” Sue to Prevent Mining of Huge Lithium Deposit?

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 9, 2025
Human Exceptionalism}

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

High U.N. Official Supports “Nature Rights” and Environmental Lawfare

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The assistant secretary general of the U.S., Kanni Wignaraja, wants "nature" to go to court so that tribunals can set environmental policy for the world. From her "Nature Goes to Court," published by the U.N. Development Programme (of which she is a regional director): Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

‘Ocean Rights’ Earth Religion Advances in the UN

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 5, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

The “international world order” is increasingly radical in its environmental engagement and anti-human in the policies it promotes. In the great cause of “saving the planet,” scientific precepts and empirical analyses are being cast aside in favor of a neo-earth religious mysticism. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 10, 2023}

Todd Myers on Democratizing Environmentalism by ‘Thinking Small’

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 10, 2023}

^{Walter Myers III
April 3, 2023
Technology}

AOC and a Day Without Fossil Fuels

_{Walter Myers III
April 3, 2023
Technology}

Green New Deal Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for an end to fossil fuels by 2035. Her desire to protect the earth for future generations is understandable, even laudable. But what she doesn’t seem to appreciate is that humans are here on earth with lives to live, and in using the resources the earth provides there will always be some level of impact on the planet. Read More ›

Homemade sign at environmental rally. A colorful cardboard placard is viewed close up, saying the climate is changing, why aren't we, in the hands of ecological activists as they protest in the city

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

I have always loved science fiction. So when Soylent Green was first released in 1973, I immediately headed to the theater. I remember clearly being shocked by the depictions presented but assuaging myself with the comforting thought that nothing like any of that would ever actually happen. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

Stop ‘Authoritarian Climate Governance’ Before It is Too Late

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 4, 2022
Human Exceptionalism}

If COVID has taught us anything, it is that the technocratic class has little compunction about restricting freedom. Moreover, once they grab power, they are very reluctant to give it back. Read More ›

Blue sky and clouds over Henderson Creek, which runs through Rookery Bay in Marco Island

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Florida Creeks — Yes, the Bodies of Water — Sue to Enforce ‘Nature Rights’

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 30, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

The “nature rights” movement is stunningly anti-human. It not only removes the concept of “rights” from the strictly human realm — us, our juridical entities and associations, etc. — but was created to thwart human enterprise. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley and George Gilder
February 11, 2020
Economics}

The Simon Abundance Index

_{Gale Pooley and George Gilder
February 11, 2020
Economics}

Are we running out of resources? That’s been a hotly debated question since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb in 1968. The Stanford University biologist warned that population growth would result in the exhaustion of resources and a global catastrophe. University of Maryland economist and Cato Institute’s Senior Fellow Julian Simon, in contrast, argued that humans would Read More ›