ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Introductions and FAQs > Environment
- TOC Study Guide: The Environment
Source: The Objectivist Center
Author: James G. Lennox
Country: United States
E-mail: toc@objectivistcenter.org
- A brief guide to environmental issues from an objectivist standpoint, with detailed references and bibliography. Available as a pamphlet, or online in html or pdf format.
- Anti-Environmental Enforcement
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan Adler
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States
- As if it's not enough that the EPA receives taxes to carry out pointless research to enact ridiculous laws, now it wants to enforce them.
- Defenders of Wildlies
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Ike C. Sugg
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States
- "Facts are true, whether we believe them or not. To have environmental activists chide us on the issue of truth is akin to receiving a lecture on family values from Dick Morris. And they should be just as ashamed."
- Washington Waterworld
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: David Barrett
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States
- "Hollywood isn't the only institution that funds multi-million dollar, water-related fiascos. Washington has been in on the act for years."
- Against Environmentalism
Source: Ayn Rand Institute
Author: Michael S. Berliner
Country: United States
- Exposing the anti-man mentality of environmentalism.
- Market-Based Environmentalism and the Free Market: They're Not the Same
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Roy E. Cordato
City: Oakland, State: CA, Country: United States
- "Policy makers do not value market exchange because it maximizes liberty and personal satisfaction of wants. Instead, policy makers value the market because they can manipulate it to produce a centrally planned outcome. This approach describes so-called market-based environmental policy."
- Tragedy of the Commons
Source: Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Author: Garret Hardin
Country: United States
- The groundbreaking 1968 essay. A simple lesson (clearly presented), but it challenged the environmental orthodoxy and forced mainstream economists to rethink many previously accepted public-goods arguments.
- Bambi and Business Sense
Source: Free-Market.Net Media Spotlight
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States
E-mail: media@free-market.net
- How the mass media treats free-market environmentalism.
- Economic growth versus the environment: a false choice
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Kenneth Chilton
Country: United States
- Transcript of a talk given by Dr. Chilton at the Chicago Resourceful Earth Day Conference on April 22nd, 1999. Largely discusses two world views, "ecology first" and "economics first". (4/99)
- What is Free Market Environmentalism?
Source: PERC/The Stanford Review
Author: Candice Jackson Mayhugh
Country: United States
- Upon being named a new Hoover Institution Fellow, PERC Exec. Dir. Terry Anderson gave this interview. Anderson covers the basics about how free-market environmentalism differs from "standard" environmentalism and why people should be optimistic about our environmental future.
- The Green Gestapo: Environmentalism Gone Insane
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Jarrett Wollstein
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- "[T]o the Green Gestapo, the only interest is 'protecting' every rat and bug -- with little concern for human consequences." ISIL pamphlet.
- The Pollution Solution
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Dr. Mary Ruwart
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- This ISIL pamphlet argues that private property is the best safeguard of the environment.
- Environmental progress: What every executive should know
Source: Political Economy Research Center / Reason Foundation
Author: Jane S. Shaw and Lynn Scarlett
Country: United States
- New paper challenges conventional wisdom about the role of business in environmental issues. Written primarily for business executives, it offers new ideas for addressing environmental challenges while keeping a principled commitment to market competition, consumer choice, and innovation. Full text in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat). (4/99)
- Endangered Species
Source: Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation
Country: United States
- A short look at the problems with, and alternatives to, the Endangered Species Act. Number six in a series of environmental briefing papers from CSEF. (3/22/99)
- Environmental Self-Audits
Source: Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation
Country: United States
- A short look at voluntary self-audits within industry as a tool for attaining environmental objectives. Number eight in a series of environmental briefing papers from CSEF. (3/22/99)
- If You Do The Eco-Crime, You Will Spend The Time
Source: ecoworld.com/Defenders of Property Rights
Author: Nancy G. Marzulla
Country: United States
- A warning about "environmental reform" legislation that criminalizes activities which don't harm the environment at all.
- Environmental Protection: The New Socialism?
Source: ecoworld.com
Author: Jane Shaw
Country: United States
- Questions the common assumption that economic growth and environmental protection are not compatible with each other.
- Reinventing Environmentalism in the New Era
Source: PERC
Author: Terry L. Anderson, editor
Country: United States
- From the PERC Policy Series, with eight separate contributors. Outlines a free-market environmental agenda focusing on the use of incentives, buttressing property rights so as to encourage good stewardship, and holding polluters to strict liability standards for the harm they cause others.
- The Common Law: How It Protects the Environment
Source: PERC
Author: Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle
Country: United States
- From the PERC Policy Series. "Eventually, citizens will recognize that the common law, bolstered by local regulation, can protect the environment more effectively and fairly than can congressional statutes and bureaucratic regulations."
- Free-Market Environmentalism FAQ
Source: The Thoreau Institute
Country: United States
- A relatively conservative introduction to free-market environmentalism.
- Earth Day: Can We Talk?
Source: Pacific Research Institute / The Commercial Appeal
Author: Erin Schiller
Country: United States
- Contrary to popular opinion, economic growth is good for the environment. "Environmentalists should no longer regard economic concerns as a hindrance to effective policy, but should adopt innovative policies that incorporate and even promote economic growth."
- How Should We Celebrate America Recycles Day?
Source: Center for the Study of American Business/Investor's Business Daily
Author: Kenneth Chilton
Country: United States
- Asks this question in reference to America Recycles Day (obscure pseudo-holiday, November 15th): Will recycling help the environment?
- Rise of the Global Envirocrat
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Christopher Douglass
Country: United States
- America's trust is misplaced in putting environmental protection in the hands of international bureaucracies.
- Beyond the 100th Paradigm
Source: The Thoreau Institute
Author: Randal O'Toole and Karyn Moscowitz
Country: United States
- Internal conflict and extremism have marginalized the environmental movement. Will a new environmental paradigm emerge?
- Across the Ideological Divide
Source: the Thoreau Institute
Author: Rocky Barker
Country: United States
- A liberal environmentalist reconsiders voluntary cooperation and non-governmental solutions to environmental problems.
- The Gentle Use of Working Landscapes
Source: the Thoreau Institute
Author: Sally Fairfax
Country: United States
- Another call from within the environmentalist movement for a change in direction away from command and control. "We need a teaching stance that emphasizes gentle use and responsibility."
- Environmentalism in the 1990s: Intolerant and Proud of It
Source: the Thoreau Institute
Author: John A. Charles
Country: United States
- An excellent article on how the environmental movement can become dynamic and finally truly effective by embracing libertarian values.
- The Evolving Environmentalism
Source: the Thoreau Institute
Author: John Baden and Doug Noonan
Country: United States
- A new vision of environmental policy is emerging. The environmental movement is evolving toward taking a more libertarian approach.
- Building an Alliance Between Environmentalists and Libertarians
Source: the Thoreau Institute
Author: Randal O'Toole
Country: United States
- Examines the feasibility of and potential methods for building an alliance between environmentalists and libertarians. Very insightful.
- Is Free Market Environmentalism 'Mainstream'?
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Terry L. Anderson and Jane S. Shaw
Country: United States
- Is FME "mainstream"? It wasn't, but has become so according to this essay from PERC's book, "A Blueprint for Environmental Education." The essay is available online in PDF format.
- Pro-environment, not pro-EPA
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan Adler
Country: United States
- A December 1998 follow up survey confirmed the results of CEI's 1996 environmental survey: that the American public is indeed concerned about environmental problems, but leery of environmental bureaucracy.
- Environmental Progress And Growth
Source: NCPA
Author: H. Sterling Burnett
Country: United States
- Suggests five new principles for environmental progress.
- U.S. Water Use Declines
Source: NCPA / New York Times
Author: William K. Stevens
Country: United States
- America's use of water is actually decreasing due to increasing efficiency.
- Fighting Smokey The Bear To Save Our Nation's Forests
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Country: United States
- In this press release, CEI announces a new study by Robert H. Nelson that examines the awful record of the U.S. Forest Service in preventing forest fires. (3/17/99)
- Environmental Injustice at EPA
Source: Economic Government Group/Center-Right
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States
- Repudiates the concept of "environmental racism." The EPA's efforts to apply the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to environmental policy will make it increasingly harder for the underprivileged to climb up the ladder of economic opportunity.
- Let's Pretend
Source: The Liberty Journal
Author: Virginia Postrel
Country: United States
- The author sees something "weirdly appropriate" about starting the unabomber trial a few weeks after the Kyoto summit to craft a global-warming treaty.
- Steven Hayward's testimony to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Country: United States
- Short text of the testimony of Pacific Research Senior Fellow Steven Hayward before a Senate Committee on the topic of "urban sprawl". (3/17/99)
- No Basis in Reality
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States
- CEI responds to poorly reasoned criticism from a reactionary environmentalist. Old but still relevant and indicative of the attitudes of those who love government more than the environment.
- Green but Anti-Government
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States
- Presents CEI's original 1996 poll revealing the American public's attitude is consistent with free-market environmentalism.
- How to dismantle the Interior Department
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Robert H. Nelson
Country: United States
- Executive summary of a longer essay available in print from CEI. How to save roughly $3.8 billion annually.
- The GOP Vs. The Environment?
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute / Investor's Business Daily
Author: Jonathan Adler
Country: United States
- The GOP should embrace the free-market environmentalist perspective.
- Dam Fools
Source: Regulatory Policy Center / Reason magazine
Author: James V. DeLong
Country: United States
- Environmentalists want to tear down dams, and they might be right. Many should not have been built in the first place and the cost benefit case for keeping them cannot be assumed. (4/98)
- Beware of grafting environmental ideology on to orthodox faith
Source: Acton Institute / Detroit News
Author: Rev. Robert A. Sirico
Country: United States
- Op-ed piece critiquing statist environmentalism from a free-market and Christian perspective. (3/99)
- Talking points for the environment
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Country: United States
- Large selection of links to various short "talking points" for free-market environmental activists.
- The global effects of local logging cutbacks
Source: Political Economy Research Center
Author: Roger A. Sedjo
Country: United States
- An article which explains that restricting logging in developed nations merely shifts timber harvests to developing nations, and that this is often results in a net increase in environmental damage. Adaptation of an essay originally published in 1994. (6/99)
- Government hinders environmental progress, free market advances it
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: David Ridenour
Country: United States
- Two short anecdotes are used to illustrate the key principle of free-market environmentalism. (4/99)
- The anti-environment estate tax: Why the 'death tax' is deadly for endangered species
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
Author: Jonathan H. Adler
Country: United States
- The author makes the point that the estate tax creates a perverse incentive to over-develop land. Naturally, that's a negative for the environment. (4/99)
- More environmental Gore
Source: Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
Author: John A. Baden
Country: United States
- Commentary on why Al Gore's ideas on the environment are "silly, simplistic, and self-serving." (4/26/99)
- Politics and cynicism dominate UN biotech deliberations
Source: Cato Institute's Regulation Magazine
Author: Henry Miller
Country: United States
- A junk science "UN biosafety protocol" was defeated, but not for the right reasons. The U.S. did not take the scientific or moral high ground. Adobe PDF file. (8/99)
- Applying economic principles to environmental protection
Source: Center for the Study of American Business
Author: Kenneth Chilton
Country: United States
- "Economic principles can show us how to sacrifice the least amount of growth to produce the environmental benefits that Americans want."
- Common-sense environmentalism
Source: Heartland Institute
Country: United States
- The basics of preserving the environment while maintaining respect for individual liberty. Includes "36 rules of eco-sanity" plus information of sound science and respect for property rights.
- Why I'm not a greenie
Source: Common Sense/Mannkal
Author: Viv Forbes
Country: Australia
- What is wrong with the green movement, for a person who does love nature? Its totalitarian tendencies, principial anti-humanity, "efficient" dishonesty, and more...(04/99)
- Streams, wildlife, wilderness: liberty's surprising triumph
Source: LP News
Author: Peter Orvetti
Country: United States
- "What will become of it when Libertarians come to power, and privatize the parks? If we cut the State down to size, will we be cutting down all the trees, too? In other words, can private interests be trusted to maintain America's parkland -- or will they 'pave paradise and put up a parking lot,' as Joni Mitchell sang? (06/00)
- Point-counterpoint on genetically modified food
Source: A World Connected/IHS
Author: Radley Balko
Country: United States
- A level-headed examination of both sides of the genetically modified foods issue, with links and suggestions for further reading.
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