Environmental Priorities vs. ‘Climate Change’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 11, 2026

Classic articles are worth remembering. One in the environmental field was a prioritization of environmental issues back in 2020 by Bjorn Lomborg, “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies“

“What is the world’s deadliest environmental problem?,” asks Bjorn Lomborg. The answer:

Not climate. Outdoor and indoor air pollution. Let’s not get so scared about climate that we forget the much bigger problems. Read more in my peer-reviewed article: https://sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0040162520304157.

This result explains why today, climate alarm is just not resonating with the public to the chagrin of the alarmists. Bill McKibben faults the New York Times and Democrats for throwing in the political towel. “I’m saddened to see how little our representatives in DC seem to really care, even the Democratic ones,” he begins:

Too many Democratic leaders are feeling comfortable waving off climate concerns, because of a feeling that it might be a political problem for them.

U.S. Nuclear Waste: History of a Failed Endeavor

By Kennedy Maize -- September 10, 2026

For 80 years, the U.S. government and its industrial and utility partners have failed to understand the problem of the noxious and dangerous nuclear waste for war and peace and successfully respond. Kicking the can down the road, evident today with fiscal policy, applied in spades to nuclear waste in wartime and peacetime.

Wartime Waste

It began at Hanford during World War II’s Manhattan Project when little attention was paid to what was left behind when U-235 was stripped from U-238 to turn uranium into plutonium. Nuclear engineers considered it a simple problem that could be dealt with later, much later. The nasty brew of chemical and nuclear poisons was dumped into large, oil-field-derived stainless-steel tanks.

In 1947, pioneering Baltimore “sanitary engineer” Abel Wolman — who had standardized the use of chlorine to purify drinking water — joined the Atomic Energy Commission’s advisory board.…

Are Climate Psychedelics ‘Cultists’?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 9, 2026

My post, Psychedelics for Climate Action, struck a nerve. The head of the tripping group, Marissa Feinberg, considered the parenthetical statement “12,000 cultists” was defamatory. I have received three warnings and a threat of legal action (see the end of the post below).

Hallucinates … Hallucinations … How strange. I quoted Feinberg: “Our psychedelic-climate leaders are active today, creating change and doing compelling transformational work in this space.”

A definition of “cult” includes different meanings:

“a relatively small group of people having beliefs or practices, especially relating to religion, that are regarded by others as strange or sinister or as imposing excessive control over members” (here)
“a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular thing” (here)
“a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object” (here)

Similar terms are identified as “sect, denomination, church, faith, belief, persuasion, affiliation, movement, group, body, faction, clique.”…