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[Post note: Anybody see the movie Avatar? Well that's how native people perceive conservation efforts - as helping governing elites to steal their lands.] The Mother Jones magazine has been running a series of on-line articles which exemplify how some progressives are exploring the ways in which...
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I note first that I am reminded by a pithy comment from someone else that, despite the length of my previous post addressing John Quiggin `s post on libertarian delusion , sometimes less is more. Writes commenter "ABOM", in a comment made elsewhere and linked back in to Quiggin`s thread (done...
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John Quiggin , a left-leaning Australian economist and professor at the University of Queensland, has noted my recent post on the penchant for bloggers and readers at the Mises Blog to attack climate science - are " almost universally committed to delusional views on climate science ", as he...
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[Folks, I hope you do a better job than I do at saving draft posts before they`re finalized; I just lost alot of work. This will necessarily be shorter.] I have on numerous occasions tried to point out, to posters on the Mises Blog who have addressed climate issues, the stunning unproductive approach...
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[Update: Bob Murphy sends in an email comment, copied (in relevant part) at the bottom of this post.] I`ve addressed here on five different threads the question of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post . I`ve commented here mainly because...
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A recent post on the Mises Daily pages on the " Religious Roots of Liberty " by the late Congregationalist minister Rev. Edmund Optiz (1914-2006) (originially published in The Freeman, February 1955 ) provides an opportunity to restate and discuss some of the thoughts I`ve been working though...
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This is my third follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. cyberfarer Posted 9:26 pm 27 Aug 2009 ... [addressed to...
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This is the second follow-up to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. T Worstall Posted 5:27 pm 27 Aug 2009 TokyoTom makes...
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This is the first of several follow-up posts to my post " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. cyberfarer Posted 2:58 am 27 Aug...
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The Grist online environmental magazine lent its pages this week to a pessimistic climate change activist, Adam D. Sacks , former director of the Center for Democracy and the Constitution. Mr. Sacks, echoing a despairing piece (" Beyond the point of no return" ) by Ross Gelbspan in Grist in...
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I refer to my previous posts on the interesting subject of whether there is an "objective moral order", which Gene Callahan broached in a May blog post , returned to in a subsequent post but abandoned, to be picked up but ultimately punted by Bob Murphy (and again by Gene when he visited Bob...
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Ron Bailey , science correspondent for ReasonOnline , on July 1 noted in a Hit & Run post that " Models Aren`t Always Right ". I left the following comment, which I copy here since I didn`t see it post: "Ron, of course models aren`t always right, but; 1. even Lindzen is arguing for...
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I refer to Bob Murphy `s blog post, "Do Non-Believers Burn in Hell?" , which is still active, but with little further contribution from Bob (who`s been busy doing God`s work on other matters). In the post Bob asserts that "the doctrines of Christianity make sense and are logical"...
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Check out the comments to Bob Murphy`s post that rightly but shallowly criticizes the "green jobs" mantra, EDF Summarizes Bastiat in One Picture . I refer to Rockwell and Block.
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Roger Pielke, Jr. , a political scientist who rather persistently blames politically naive climate scientists for the very natural fact that there is a politicized debate over climate policy, posted last week at his Prometheus website a guest commentary by Michael Zimmerman , Professor and Director,...