Socialism Versus Nature

"Greed of the fossil fuel industry" is "destroying our planet," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says socialism creates "an environment that provides for all people, not just the privileged few." "Nonsense," says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video. "Wherever socialism is tried, it creates nasty pollution." Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez and most of us, spent lots of time in socialist countries. He once smuggled books into the Soviet Union. What he's seen convinces him that environmental-movement socialists are ...

Madrid, Spain

The Climatic Hangover

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) Madrid recovers, copa a copa, after weeks of the Climate Summit. I’ve never seen her so thirsty! The catastrophic ...

Al Gore

Al Gore’s Dream of Power

I see Al Gore’s been at the sauce again. Former vice president Al Gore recently compared climate change doubters to racists. Gore, speaking with former advertising executive ...

Hindenburg

A Vast Mass of Gas

My sometime college classmate and debate judge, Al, has just published a very long rant in Rolling Stone. Though I know little of that scene–it’s been years since I last dined ...

Costner & Kutcher to, Like, Fix the Oil Spill

We need to do our part to let BP know there are consequences for causing something like this… The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure ...

Turn Off the Lights To Save the Birds

As a culture, we’re wistful about our tallest buildings. Cities love to show off grand buildings as testaments to human endeavor. Illuminated skyscrapers are a ...

Climate of Here

Is a conservative climate consensus possible? If hard cases make bad law, soft science makes sensible politics even harder. The Climate Wars present legislators on both sides of ...


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