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This time it`s David Veksler , with a post on the main LvMI blog , with the title I`ve quoted above. Why is it that so many Mises commentators flee from reason and prefer a fever-pitched focus on strawmen when it comes to addressing environmental issues? I copy below my comments on the thread [note:...
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" You have been warned: green fascism could soon be on the march. " So does libertarian Ron Bailey , science correspondent for Reason magazine, take up the alarm raised by Fred Pearce of New Scientist , who believes that enviros will point to the ongoing wave of food shortages to argue that...
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Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...
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Walter Block of Loyola University has graced the main LvMI blog with a rare post, this time a clipping - without commentary - from a piece entitled " Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age ", by Canadian conservative commentator Lorne Gunter concerning the relatively high snowfalls...
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In my recent post, " Escape from Reason: are Austrians conservatives, or neocons, on the environment? ", I noted two recent posts by George Reisman and Sean Corrigan and wondered whether a significant number of LvMI blog authors and commenters, on a host of "environmental" issues...
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In their more considerate writings, Austrians have counseled a cool, rational approach to environmental issues. But recent posts lead me to wonder whether a number of LvMI blog authors and commenters prefer hot-headed emotional outbursts and partisan, ad hominem attacks over Austrian principles, rational...
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... is what poor countries need. So corrrectly argues Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute , in a new article that responds to the agreement, by the delegates of industrialized nations at the December climate change conference in Bali, to activate an “adaptation fund” that would help...
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[snark on] One of Sean Corrigan's threads brings us not only more information on handy Misesean definitions, but a path towards Yuletide joy. (For those of you who have not been reading them, Sean's columns and comment threads are truly gifts that keep on giving.) In this case, we learn more...
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[snark meter - medium] John Baden , a former logger and oilman, has long been a pillar of the "free-market" environmentalists. He founded and leads the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) and founded and headed the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC...
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[Snark alert; See update at bottom] The Mises "Daily Article" for December 11 presents "Are Carbon Emissions the Cause of Global Warming?" a brief, unfootnoted post by David Evans , a self-acknowledged non-expert (who has once previously graced the LvMI blog) offering a "very...