He plans to shame them into submission. Continue reading
Category Archives: Property rights
Mark W. Hendrickson: A Book Review of Brian Sussman’s “Eco-Tyranny”
In “Eco-Tyranny,” author Brian Sussman sounds a timely and important warning: The radical “greens” are not in retreat. With the defeat of cap-and-trade legislation in 2010 and the increasingly discredited alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming, the greens may have lowered their public profile; however, with the full cooperation of the Obama administration, they are forging ahead with their illiberal agenda of gaining ever more control over the American economy and people. Continue reading
Hands Off Our Land: desperate Treasury to water down planning laws again
Planning laws could be watered down again in a desperate Treasury move to rescue the UK economy from recession. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Property rights, Smart growth
Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail — for Collecting Rainwater on His Property
A rural Oregon man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reservoirs on his property to collect and use rainwater. Continue reading
Posted in Property rights, Water rights
Keystone XL pipeline is issue of property rights for some ranchers
The Keystone XL pipeline has reignited the emotional issue of eminent domain — the taking of private property for public use — all along its proposed route. Continue reading
Michael Trebilcock: Blown away
Rural residents find consultation on wind projects a sham Continue reading
Global fight for natural resources ‘has only just begun’
Academics and business figures gave a grim warning at the Resource 2012 conference, but defended the Rio+20 outcomes Continue reading
Posted in Population, Property rights, World resources
Resolutions Made at Rio+20 Should not be Taken as a Sign of Progress
Really? I thought the mealy-mouthed empty nonsense a great improvement over previous efforts. Definite progress. Continue reading
Tim van Gelder: Sustainability demands public wisdom
Sigh… Actually Tim, Australia is still pretty much a blank sheet, waiting for us to terraform into an environment that suits us better. Once we have done so we can sustain anything we want. There is nothing magical about the way it was before we started improving it any more than there is some special quality about its previous desperately unproductive state.
We were a country of nation builders but constant white-anting by the green left has eroded us to a collection of effete worriers, too uncertain to manage a trip to the corner store. That’s not ‘public wisdom’ but societal sabotage. Continue reading
Government Playing With Fire: Localism Act Is Used Against Locals
Wind farm developers are using the Coalition’s new planning laws to challenge a local ban on building turbines next to houses, documents reveal. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Property rights, Sustainability
Tagged government subsidies, Wind power
Lorne Gunter: World Cooling To Global Warming
As the climate-change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad. Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree. But increasingly, their warnings of impending doom and their character attacks on their opponents will be performed before empty houses, as in Rio. Continue reading
Gary Hunt: Rio+20 Economic Reality Check
Against the backdrop of wobbling economies more than 130 world leaders arrived for the Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development where the mood was just as surly as the global economy. Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, Development, Environmentalism, Green hell, Precautionary principle, Property rights, Sovereignty, Sustainability, UN
Tagged global governance, rio+20
Gwynne Dyer: Perpetrators will not pay for crimes against planet
This week’s item from the rubber room: Continue reading
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley: Don’t worry about the ickle birdies
“BUT what about the ickle birdies?” wailed the ancient, off-blonde representative of the planet’s indigenous peoples in the shapeless, grimy, crumpled eco-sackcloth shift that is de rigueur this season among the female of the species here at the shapeless, grimy, crumpled Rio conference center. Continue reading
Terence Corcoran: Post Rio+20 Sustainable Development: RIP?
Executive at IISD writes devastating, almost despairing critique of Rio+20. “We have come to a sorry pass,” says Mark Halle in a commentary on last week’s conference Continue reading
Lord Monckton: Rio+20 Hypocrisy and UN/Eco-Fascist Psychological Warfare Against Children
Alex Jones interviews Lord Christopher Monckton on the hypocrisy of the UN’s Rio+20 conference and the on-going eco-brainwashing agenda against children and youth to train them to hate humanity and freedom and exalt totalitarianism in the name of saving “Mother Earth. Continue reading
RIO+20: Side agreements pitched as the real meat behind Earth Summit
This year’s reprise of the international Earth Summit here produced hundreds of side agreements that U.N. officials, diplomats and activists cited as evidence that the conference wasn’t the washout many claim. Continue reading
Richard Black: Rio summit ends with warning on corporate power
The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and environmental crises. Gro Harlem Brundtland, author of a major UN sustainable development report 25 years ago, said corporate power was one reason for lack of progress. Continue reading
Ileana Johnson Paugh: Environmental Floundering at failed Rio+20 Summit
The much-hyped Rio+20 Summit in Brazil has ended. The UN Conference on Biodiversity, aptly named, “The Future We Want,” (we being the environmentalist NGOs and other UN affiliates) was met with vociferous protests from thousands of women who were joined by hundreds of men. Continue reading
Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin: Rio+20’s expensive wish list
$1,325 per American family for U.N. bureaucrats Continue reading
