Tag: the environment
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Trump Right about Prosperity and the Environment
“WHAT REALLY MATTERS” IN SAFEGUARDING THE EARTH by Tom Harris, ©2019 (Apr. 26, 2019) — Despite the anger of activists about President Donald Trump’s official Earth Day statement, he was right to highlight the important role economic prosperity and a strong market economy play in protecting the environment. After all, without prosperity, we cannot afford…
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Americans Oblivious To The Approaching Storm
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Jul. 30, 2017) — A while back we attended an evening meeting of over 30 rural landowners, in which a couple of auditors of a land use department were there to collect stories of government abuse, for the purposes of an audit. They got an…
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Green Enemies of the Environment
“WHAT IS THE REAL AGENDA?” by Viv Forbes, ©2017, carbon-sense.com (Mar. 1, 2017) — There was a time when true environmentalists strove to protect wild things. Now the green shirts have become enemies of the environment by pushing green energy and demonising the building blocks of life – carbon and carbon dioxide. Wind turbines and…
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Rolling Back Environmental Progress?
HAVING ACHIEVED MAJOR GOALS, US SHOULD REFOCUS EPA AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCIES by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Dec. 3, 2016) — Donald Trump plans to “roll back progress” on climate change, energy and the environment, activists, regulators and their media allies assert. The claim depends on one’s definition of “progress.” These interest groups define “progress” as…
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Will A Hillary Presidency Trigger A Revolution?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Oct. 30, 2016) — There are millions of Americans who still believe in the land of the free and home of the brave. They still believe in their minds that they are free, a freedom that had to be written in blood in…
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The Equator Principles and Sustainable Poverty
REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES REJECTED IN FAVOR OF “POLITICAL AGENDA” by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, ©2016 (Oct. 12, 2016) — This article was first published in The DeWeese Report in January of 2013. Nothing has changed since then except taxes are higher, government is more powerful and there are more poor in the…
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Cut Fingers, Cancer, Bats and Birds
GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS DELAY LIFE-SAVING ROAD PROJECTS, BUT LET WIND TURBINES BUTCHER BATS by Paul Driessen and James H. Rust (Apr. 7, 2013) — Georgia residents recently learned that a rare bat has stalled state highway improvements. The May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a northern Georgia tree has triggered federal regulations requiring…