Jane Shaw Stroup

Jane Shaw Stroup is co-author with Michael Sanera of Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment, and is retired after over 20 years as a research scholar with the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT.

The Population ‘Problem’ Fizzles

Each year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has a dinner in Washington, D.C., honoring the economist Julian Simon, who died in 1998. Simon was a rare optimist in the fields of population and natural resources. He disagreed with most environmentalists of his day (especially in the 1980s through 1990s). They feared passionately that the growing […]

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Blame the Gristmills

You may remember the extremely cold winter of 2021. In Texas, the system of electricity collapsed; 4.5 million homes lost power—for days. More than 200 people died, half of them of hypothermia (cold). This wasn’t supposed to happen, of course. Texas’s electric utilities are regulated, and the regulation had been modernized beginning in 1999. Image:

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Trade-Offs: Biden’s Push for Bio-energy from Agriculture Worries Environmentalists

The “Inflation Reduction Act” will provide $140 billion in agricultural “tax incentives, loans, and grants” to promote energy. Environmentalists are not happy. Keith Schneider of the New York Times writes: “Despite pushback from environmental groups concerned about increased pollution from farm waste, developers across the country see opportunities to build ambitious renewable energy projects to

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Australia’s Great Coral Reef Is Alive and Well. Why Hide That Fact?

(This file has been updated.) Peter Ridd, who examined current data about Australia’s Great Coral Reef, demolishes fears that the reef is sick or dying. He asks why the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is obscuring that fact by failing to aggregate the data. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash However, perhaps recognizing that Ridd (a

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