Happy 4th: Drive, Grill, Celebrate (CO2 happiness)

Ignore the climate alarmists and eco-snoops. Celebrate the traditions of July 4th this weekend with gusto!

Drive to a favorite place, grill outdoors to your heart’s desire, use plastic for convenience, keep the house cool and drinks cold, and watch the the fireworks displays. It’s all CO2 fun!

Here are some photos to get the inspiration going.

‘The Increasing Sustainability of Conventional Energy’ (1999 analysis for 2020)

“The Petroleum Economist’s headline for 1998 projects, ‘Ever Greater Use of New Technology,” will also characterize future years, decades, centuries, and millennia under market conditions. If the ‘ultimate resource’ of human ingenuity is allowed free rein, energy in its many and changing forms will be more plentiful and affordable for future generations than it is now, although never ‘too cheap to meter’ as was once forecast for nuclear power.” (Bradley, 1999: 40)

From time to time, MasterResource dips into the history vault to demonstrate how well the free-market, human ingenuity worldview has stood the test of time. Julian Simon Lives!, in other words.

Twenty-one years ago, I published a Cato Policy Analysis, The Increasing Sustainability of Conventional Energy (No. 341: April 22, 1999). It was 51 pages with 250 references.…

Anti-Humanism: Book Review of ‘The End of Nature’ by Bill McKibben

“Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” -David Graber, Los Angeles Times (below)

Bill McKibben, a radical deep ecologist, has been normalized in today’s alarmist, TDS world. He has a regular column in The New Yorker, claiming that man-made climate change is “the most thorough and complete crisis our species and our civilizations have ever faced, one there is no guarantee that we will survive intact.”

I recently came across a book review of McKibben’s deep-ecology manifesto, The End of Nature (Random House: 1989), titled Mother Nature as a Hothouse Flower.

Published in the Los Angeles Times in that year by David Graber (“a research biologist with the National Park Service”), the review was all-in with McKibben’s scary worldview.…

Censorship for Climate Alarm: Dessler Joins Mann in Intellectual Cowardice

Joanna Szurmak Interview: Extending the Julian Simon Worldview (Part II: Population Bombed!)

Joanna Szurmak Interview: Extending the Julian Simon Worldview (Part I: Worldview)

“Seven Principles of Sound Environmental Policy” (Hayes and Myers on free-market environmentalism)

GE: Contra-Capitalism’s Toll (lightbulb unit sold)

UK Not Really Buying Into Climate Activism

Gov. Abbott: Ignore Professor Dessler (angry Andrew a climate catastrophist)