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In these two videos, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s R.J. Smith discusses, first, the history of environmentalism [2], and, second, the tragedy of the commons [3]. Great viewing!
Also from CEI, Marlo Lewis blogs on Indur Goklany’s research into the happy trend of weather-related human deaths [4]. Here’s Marlo’s opening:
The indomitable Indur Goklany — “Goks” to his friends — has just posted a primer on extreme weather-related mortality entitled, Global Death Toll From Extreme Weather Events Declining.
If you are one of the hapless millions who watched Al Gore’s scare-you-mentary, An Inconvenient Truth, with its ad nauseum footage of hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, and floods, you might think that carbon dioxide emissions are making the world a more dangerous place.
Goks’ primer demolishes this falsehood. It also reaches the heretical conclusion that restrictions on carbon-based energy would actually impede progress in reducing deaths and death rates related to extreme weather.