Environmental & Social Justice – Page 3

Jun 11 2018

An Unlikely Ally for Scientists who Question Climate Alarmism

By E. Calvin Beisner / June 11, 2018

The “closest thing to a celebrity scientist in Seattle” is what the Seattle Times calls Cliff Mass, “a meteorologist who specializes in weather prediction and modeling,” according to his faculty bio at the University of Washington’s College of the Environment. Mass, a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at UW, wrote The Weather of the Pacific Northwest—one of the […]

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Jun 6 2018

What Is Man, that We Are Mindful of Him?

By E. Calvin Beisner / June 6, 2018

The Associated Press’s report today on the continuing volcano eruption on Kilauea, the main island of Hawaii, which has destroyed hundreds of homes, included the sentence, “Those who live or vacation in the area were mourning the loss of popular tide-pools where kids enjoyed swimming,” which got me thinking: If, as they do, natural processes routinely

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Dec 27 2017

Is Capitalism Bad for the Environment? The Eighth Commandment Offers a Clue

By E. Calvin Beisner / December 27, 2017

A common charge by environmentalists is that capitalism is bad for the environment. Indeed, Christiana Figueres, former secretary-general of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, opined that climate negotiations in Paris in late 2014 offered the world its best opportunity to replace the reigning global economic order (capitalism, or free markets) with another

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Nov 5 2017

CO2 Increase Hysteria: Scare Tactic or Science?

By Vijay Jayaraj / November 5, 2017

Despite major political developments in Washington and Barcelona, something else managed to grab global headlines this week—a declaration of emergency because of the increase in carbon dioxide gas in the earth’s atmosphere. Mainstream media had it on their first pages. “CO2 levels in the atmosphere hit a record high in 2016,” one news website said, sourcing

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Sep 14 2017

What Unintended Consequences Accompany Mandatory Evacuations for Hurricanes?

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 14, 2017

While Hurricane Irma was making its way through the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center predicted that it would veer north before reaching Florida; then that it would veer north a little later, skirting Florida’s Atlantic coast and bringing devastation; then that it would veer north still later, plowing right into

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Sep 14 2017

How Much Do We Really Need Big Brother for Disaster Relief?

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 14, 2017

USA Today reports that 80% of disaster relief aid following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma comes from faith-based organizations—denominations, individual churches, non-denominational charitable organizations. For anyone familiar with Marvin Olasky’s The Tragedy of American Compassion, that’s no surprise. In what Bill Bennett called “the most important book on welfare and social policy in a decade. Period,” Olasky

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Aug 17 2017

What Happens to Water Quality When Communities Get Poorer?

By E. Calvin Beisner / August 17, 2017

Nearly universal access to safe drinking water is one of the great miracles of modern society. Americans have taken it for granted for over half a century, though mostly unjustified fears of municipal water supplies have led to increased resort to much more expensive and usually no safer bottled water. The growth of environmentalism has

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Apr 26 2017

Christianity and the End of Ritualized Murder and Sexual Exploitation in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 26, 2017

Today we hear a lot about sex trafficking and the horrors that victims experience. The Christian church is today fighting this evil practice, but fighting sexual abuse is not a new thing for the body of Christ. Here with us today is Vijay Jayaraj, Research Associate for Developing Countries for the Cornwall Alliance for the

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Apr 13 2017

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Abortion and Forced Sterilization in India

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / April 13, 2017

Over 35 million children have been aborted worldwide so far this year. Abortion numbers for India are hard to gauge because many don’t get reported, but it’s more than half-a-million babies, and could be as many as seven million. The preference for male children is strong in India, leading to sex selective abortions and significantly fewer female children. This has

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Feb 10 2017

Caring for Creation: A Book of Good Intentions but Poor Science

By Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. / February 10, 2017

As an evangelical Christian, I believe we should be good stewards of God’s planet. We should strive to reduce pollution to protect human health and the natural environment. We should explore new alternative energy sources, always seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms. We should prioritize providing electricity for the 1.2 billion people who don’t

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