On this date in 1985, the New York Times published my “Bankrupt Environmentalism” op-ed. That piece raised a ruckus and was reprinted in the Times’ 20th Anniversary round-up of epic-or-memorabe-or-whatever Op-eds in 1990. The pervasive waste of the Superfund program foreshadowed the far more ruinous disasters of Biden’s Green New Deal. Robert Semple was a […]
Lester, the Sky Hasn’t Fallen By James Bovard Lester Brown and his think tank, the Worldwatch Institute, are a cross between Chicken Little and King Midas. Despite the wrong-headed and dire nature of Mr. Brown’s State of the World messages and other economic and environmental prophecies, many influential people take his word as gold. Indeed, […]
Was doing a Google search today and surprised to see my 1985/1990 New York Times oped on Bankrupt Environmentalism listed as one of the first responses in the New York Times search engine on environmentalism. I thought everybody had forgotten about that particular heresy. (The piece originally appeared in 1985, thanks to editor Robert Semple, […]
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