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I object to the notion, common as it is, that “claims not backed by evidence” are characteristic specifically of Christianity. by E. Calvin Beisner The headline caught my attention: “Environmentalism as Religion: Unpacking the Congregation,” by Ryan M. Yonk and Jessica Rood of the American Institute for Economic Research. Having studied and written about environmentalism
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Sri Lanka is on a path to agricultural collapse. Its president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, declared an economic emergency on August 31, 2021. Why? One reason is a bizarre agricultural policy. In April, Sri Lanka’s cabinet “approved a ban on importation of chemical fertilizers and other agrochemicals in the bid to become the first country ever to
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Anthropogenic climate change is real. It is not a an existential threat—pace Greenpeace, the Climate Action Network, and the world’s most famous climate scientist, 18-year-old Greta Thunberg, who demand a hundred-trillion-dollar makeover of the global energy infrastructure to achieve a fraction of a degree of global temperature reduction at the end of this century. COVID-19
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But was it unprecedented and attributable to manmade global warming? Guest column by Joe D’Aleo Hurricane Ida came ashore in Louisiana as a strong CAT4 hurricane. It produced major flooding and wind damage and widespread lengthy power outages in Louisiana where at least 6 people have died. [Editor’s note: Louisiana death toll from Ida had
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Guest column by Rosalie A. Lavelle American Marxism (Simon and Schuster, July 2021) is a book filled with information on how the core elements of Marxist ideology have been ingrained in American society and culture. Marxism is now pervasive in our schools, in the press, in corporations, in sports, in Hollywood, in the Democratic Party,
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Guest column by Rainer Zitelmann Many so-called climate change activists are not really concerned about the climate and the environment. No, for them, these are merely instruments in the fight against capitalism. Examine the standard work of anti-capitalist climate change activists and you will quickly see what I mean. Naomi Klein, the popular critic of
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We ended Part 3 of this history with reference to An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change, produced by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance—the original name of what became the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I don’t think any of us involved in creating it could imagine all that
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Guest column by Ken Braun An anecdote widely attributed to (but perhaps not originating with) Milton Friedman holds that the late, great Nobel Prize laureate was touring a developing nation and happened upon a public works project. To make way for the new road or canal or whatever, platoons of workers using hand shovels were laboriously
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On August 20 the Biden/Harris Administration announced five new appointees to the federal Department of Energy. Here are their qualifications: progressive political activism degree in political science progressive political activism degree in environmental science progressive political activism degree in education and ethnic studies progressive political activism degree in what? progressive political activism degree in political
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