Yours truly was one of many who early on cheered the government for aggressively curbing everyone’s activity to slow the spread of COVID-19. At the time, it seemed such a clear choice between life and death. Admittedly, I was squeamish endorsing government controls, something I’ve spent decades writing to oppose. What could possibly go wrong? As Benjamin Franklin said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor … [Read more...]
Test All Things, Hold Fast What Is Good—But How?
A reader recently forwarded to us an email from a fine Christian ministry that bemoaned the proliferation of "fake news" and other bad thinking on the Internet in the novel Coronavirus pandemic. She asked, "The very thing I've been thinking, and one of the reasons I dislike watching the news — too many lies. Who do you believe? What do you believe? Your thoughts?" Ah, the perennial questions: Whom do you believe? What do you believe? But better is the question, How do you decide what to … [Read more...]
Choosing the Economy over People’s Lives?
The current novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated all kinds of questions. As more and more people begin to demand that the more extreme measures to curb its spread---those that are shuttering a large part of our economy---come to an end, one of the most common is whether such thinking involves prioritizing the economy over lives. Is it not pro-life to insist that we continue the widespread shutdown of our economy in the name of saving lives? That's what drew this email from one … [Read more...]
The Forgotten Benefits of Global Warming
Most discussions of global warming, or “climate change,” proceed on the assumption that warming is bad, and only bad—for people, for animals, and for plants. That assumption is mistaken. While global warming will almost certainly bring some harms to some locations, it will also almost certainly bring some benefits to other locations. Indeed, in some places it will almost certainly bring both harms and benefits. Understanding a very basic element of “greenhouse” warming theory will help us … [Read more...]
Beyond the Blinders: Economic Progress in the Age of Radical Environmentalism
The dominant global narrative is that the world is overpopulated and we are exhausting natural resources. With the ongoing hysteria surrounding climate change, some even go so far as to suggest that human population growth is the cancer of the earth. But what if I told you that these fears are baseless? That innovation and invention are making resources less scarce over time, even as population and resource consumption rise? That our ability to adapt improves as the world … [Read more...]
Fauci-Birx climate models?
Honest, evidence-based climate models could avoid trillions of dollars in policy blunders. by Paul Driessen and David Legates President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force presented some frightening numbers during their March 31 White House briefing. Based on now 2-week-old data and models, as many as 100,000 Americans at the models’ low end, to 2.2 million at their high end, could die from the fast-spreading virus, they said. However, the President, Vice President Pence, and … [Read more...]
Why Has Cornwall Alliance Paid So Much Attention to the Coronavirus Pandemic?
The Cornwall Alliance’s mission is “to magnify the glory of God in creation, the wisdom of His truth in environmental stewardship, the kindness of His mercy in lifting the needy out of poverty, and the wonders of His grace in the gospel of Jesus Christ” by educating “the public and policymakers about Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the gospel of Jesus Christ, with Christian worldview, theology, and ethics that come with it.” Because excessive fears of … [Read more...]
How Many Uninfected People Will the “War on the Coronavirus” Kill?
Following is the text of Cornwall Alliance’s first “From the Stacks” livestream program with Founder and National Spokesman E. Calvin Beisner on Facebook, April 7, 2020. We post it here because Internet technical problems made some parts inaudible to viewers. Today, let’s talk about the novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19, and our governments’ responses to it. I’m going to argue that our governing authorities need to expand the sources from whom they seek advice about how to deal with this … [Read more...]
Chemical Dumping, Recycling, and Other Issues: My Response to an Email
I recently received this email, and as I think my response will be edifying to others, I share the email and my response below. Email I glanced through the website, and I was just curious what you thought about the chemical dumping into rivers that caused one river already in US history to be on fire, or the dome of pollution that used to cover LA, the connections between fossil fuel use and lung disease or cancer for people who drive long distances with their window down? I don't have all … [Read more...]
Is Geoengineering Biblical?
One of the most important verses in the Bible for our understanding of humanity’s role on the earth is Genesis 1:28: “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” Like most words in most languages, the Hebrew word there translated “earth,” ’erets, has a variety of meanings, depending on its context. … [Read more...]
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