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Relevance | DateJoanna Szurmak Interview: Extending the Julian Simon Worldview (Part I: Worldview)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 23, 2020 2 Comments“Only a relatively large population able to engage in a complex division of labour in the context of trade, industrialization and urbanization can reap the benefits of the feedback loop between technological innovation, increased economic prosperity, and population growth.”
“The most resilient solution for a cleaner earth and better climate, even with the spectre of anthropogenic climate change, is that of intensive growth thanks to, and not in spite of, a large population.”
– Joanna Szurmak (below)
Q. Joanna, you are a new name in the sustainable development field as co-author (with Pierre Desrochers) of Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change (2018). How did you get to that point?
… Continue ReadingA. I am new in most areas of scholarship familiar to MasterResource readers. If they happen to have an interest in how amorphous hydrogenated carbon can be made to behave like a semiconductor, they will find my publications from the late 1990s.
“Execs’ Open Letter to 2020 Candidates Promotes Oil & Natural Gas”
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 26, 2020 5 Comments“Sen. Sanders calls us criminal and Vice President Biden says he would put us in jail, but it would be criminal not to produce the life-sustaining energy that enables a healthy, safe and modern lifestyle.”
– Kathleen Sgamma, Western Energy Alliance, February 24, 2020
The Western Energy Alliance just placed a full-page advertisement in the New York Times with Super Tuesday in mind in which 54 oil and gas executives challenged those calling their livelihood and industry criminal.
It is high time that the major integrated oil and gas companies, not just the independents, play offense rather than defense. Seize the moral high ground and do not appease the disgruntled, obstructionist critics (those with “termite aspirations”).
A half-century ago, Ayn Rand warned business leaders to lead, not capitulate. Remember Exxon’s great value-creator (1993–2005) Lee Raymond?…
Continue ReadingAyn Rand on Energy Disruption (1970s message to Bernie and Bloomberg)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 12, 2020 2 CommentsThere is no “natural” or geological crisis; there is an enormous political one. It is in the nature of a mixed economy that its policies are rationally inexplicable.
The filling stations of the universities have dried up long ago and have been peddling a corrosive mix that paralyzes the brains of the nation. If you want to fight pollution, start with the philosophy departments; and if you want to refuel–well, look for new sources of energy.
– Ayn Rand, The Energy Crisis, Part I and Part II (November 1973) [1]
Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, known to the world as Ayn Rand, was born 115 years ago in Saint Petersburg, Russian. She died in New York City on March 6, 1982. Best known as a novelist, she wrote on contemporary issues later in life.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: December 9, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- December 9, 2019 3 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in
this issue are:
Another Round of Energy Pork
With climate change Science and Economics
should be paramount
Ontario saves $500± Million by dumping
wind turbines
Expect the ECB to Use a “Climate
Crisis” to Justify Their Next Stimulus Plan
Rolls Royce wants innovative financing
for its first-of-a-kind nuclear SMRs
Short video: Gates Goes Nuclear
Bitter Cold Stops Coal, While Nuclear
Power Excels
Nuclear Power isn’t Green Enough for
Germany
Archive: Solar Produces 300 times more waste
than Nuclear does
Why “Green” Energy is a Terrible Idea
Green Energy Studies: Consulting, or
Advertising?…