Floods Are Nothing New

This is a guest article by Viv Forbes. There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better and our worldwide media revels in disaster reporting, bringing tearfully tragic scenes into every living room, every […]

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The New Anti-Agriculture Movement: Why the Church Must Pray and Act

There is a new movement against farming. This is no random grassroots movement. It’s a global one with political interests. This new collective strategy proposes to reduce agricultural production, reduce livestock numbers, and ban plant growth-enhancing fertilizers. The objective, they claim, is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. They say

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The “Green” Global Elites are Aiming for Total Food Control

The following is a guest article sourced from Generations.org. Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The “green” global elites are aiming for total food control. Their power grab, which is now most evident in Holland, threatens the entire planet — including the United States. Guest host Adam McManus interviews Dr. Calvin Beisner, Founder of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship

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India’s “Bad Boys” Reopen 100 Coal Mines as Demand Skyrockets 

Political leaders of developing countries face constant pressure to generate enough electricity for their populations as they are being asked to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. In a bold and rebellious move, India has ordered the reopening of more than 100 dormant coal mines to meet skyrocketing domestic power demand.   The action is just

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Germany’s Green Energy Fixation Should Teach US a Lesson

Germany’s new Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government vice chancellor and economic minister Robert Habeck, a leading member of his country’s Green Party, has experienced a rude lesson regarding the disastrous consequences of his years of naïve opposition to fossil fuels. After tasking his top officials to assess the energy security implications of Germany’s dependence on Russian supplies in

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Income Distribution and Inequality

Italian economist and engineer Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) conjectured that for any population, income naturally follows a log-normal distribution. The normal, or Gaussian distribution ranges from negative to positive infinity with a central mean. Because logarithms are always positive, the log-normal distribution ranges from zero to positive infinity with a positive mean, consistent with there being

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Recovering the Moral Foundations of Economics

Editor’s note: This piece was originally published by the Acton Institute over a decade ago. Many years later, this piece still provides a poignant reflection on economics, socialism, environmentalism, and Christian ethics.  During the summer of 1980, I met weekly for breakfast, prayer, and study with a minister friend of mine. A warm-hearted, intelligent man,

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