The Perils of Idolizing Organic Farming in Sri Lanka

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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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 4: We Come of Age

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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Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful

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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Biden/Harris appointees to Department of Energy—Not a Bit of Energy Expertise

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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IPCC-proposed banishment of fossil fuels would put most of the world’s people at risk

Oil derivatives and fuel manufactured from oil were the main reasons population rose to 8 billion. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the AR6 Climate Change 2021 Report, just released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a “code red for humanity“ that “must sound a death knell for … fossil fuels, before they destroy

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Exposing the Media’s Climate Change Lies and Exaggerations

For 20 years or more, dire warnings about global warming and “climate change” have taken the mass media of entertainment by storm. Every few years, climate change doomsayers have claimed that the world only has 12 years to turn the tide. They said practically the same thing 12 and 15 years ago; however, that they’re

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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 3: A Tree Takes Root

As we saw in Part 2 of this brief history, the Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship didn’t work out as originally hoped. But that didn’t mean the Cornwall Declaration would lie dormant forever. David Rothbard and Craig Rucker, whom I introduced in Part 2, kept in touch with me over the next few years, encouraging

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