For 218 years---since Thomas Robert Malthus published the first edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population---people have been coming up with new rationales for limiting or even reducing human population. For Malthus, the fundamental reason is that people ate too much, so increasing their numbers would lead to starvation as farmers' ability to raise enough food fell behind a mushrooming population. Others since then have expanded his argument to all kinds of other resources---forests, … [Read more...]
Where does “Follow the Money” Lead?
From time to time people attack the Cornwall Alliance's credibility by claiming we're "in the pocket of Big Oil" or of the fossil fuel industry in general---the old "follow the money" attack. What's our answer? We've never received a penny, so far as we can identify, from any large oil, gas, coal, or other corporation in any field of industry. We have received a few donations---none over $1K, so far as I can remember---from small companies, but cumulatively they have made up only a tiny … [Read more...]
