“Voters and citizens all must tell Tom Steyer, the moneyed Left Foundations, taxpayer-inebriated scientists, green-energy cronies, Left politicians, and Crony Republicans that human-need philanthropy should replace the politics of pessimism and waste. It is time to end the futile climate crusade.”
– Robert Bradley, “Doubling Down on Climate Alarmism,” Forbes.com, December 1, 2014.
The free-market energy space these days is very crowded, quite unlike the old days when just a few of us were battling Big Government, Big Environmentalism, and Big Cronyism (think Enron). As one of the veterans, my blogs and op-eds now compete against a number of new voices, beginning with Alex Epstein and continuing with “America’s Voice for Energy” Marita Noon, and others. (Marlo Lewis, then as now, stands above as scholar-blogger.)…
Continue ReadingLife must be melancholy at best the neo-Malthusian closed-minded pessimists at such anti-liberty/pro-state organizations as Sierra Club, NRDC, 350.org, and Center for American Progress. No Julian Simon or Bjorn Lomborg or Judith Curry or Alex Epstein or Matt Ridley allowed at these shops!
Thankfully, most people–and certainly voters through demonstrated preference–are pessimistic about government and optimistic about life in a free society. And so it must be hard for the chronically discontent to interact on a personal, family level, particularly during the holiday season.
Consider the following quotations of Messing With The Holidays.
Heed the Warnings: Why We’re on the Brink of Mass Extinction (The Daily Beast, November 30, 2014)
… Continue Reading“Evolutionary biologist Sean B. Carroll, executive producer of the doc Mass Extinction: Life At the Brink, on why mankind’s days are numbered….”
CONSOLIDATED UTILITIES (ConU) COMPANY ANNUAL REPORT
Management’s Letter to Stockholders
Dear Fellow Shareholders:
By now you have heard news reports of ConU’s $1 billion cost overrun on the construction of our nuclear plant. However, that’s just part of the good news we have to report. If all goes according to plan, we will be able to overrun another $1 billion before the project is complete. You are, of course, aware this extra $2 billion in our capital base will mean higher earnings for decades to come with increased dividends for us all.
This achievement brings with it challenges that your management team is well equipped to handle. While these wonderful cost overruns and the profits associated with them are something we can all be proud of, they come with increased public criticism, an enormous expenditure of political capital and problems for our regulatory allies.…
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