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37 Years Ago: My WSJ Bash on Environmental Hysteria and Lester Brown

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, […]

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New York Times: Bankrupt Environmentalism (1990/1985)

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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