The Anti-green Jobs Hoax

“The biggest environmental challenge is, of course, that posed by climate change. Scarce environmental resources are treated as if they are free. All prices are distorted as a result, in some cases badly so. …. we have seen how distorted housing prices distorted the economy … The distortion in environmental prices is of equal magnitude; it has led to the using up of key resources in an unsustainable way;...

Are Slow Growth Advocates Really the Cause of a Soft Real Estate Market?

“Is the housing market vulnerable? Yes, it is. But is a bubble likely to happen? No, it is not. The underlying strength of our economy is too great.” “Historically speaking, the doldrums surrounding the housing market are not as serious as they appear.” “A persistent obstacle to affordability is posed by environmental restrictions that make it impossible for builders to produce enough homes to satisfy...

The Myth of the All Powerful Environmental Lobby

The last major environmental legislation was passed by Congress in 1990 when the Clean Air Act was significantly amended to address acid rain and ozone depletion. Both issues had been well documented and their detrimental impacts were incontrovertible. On the one hand, acid rain was virtually killing off entire forests and lakes. On the other, the ozone hole in our atmosphere was growing at an alarming pace...

Extremist Religious Groups Cross The Line With Hate-filled Speech

The worst mass extinction event of all time, the Permian Wipeout, extinguished 95% of all species on land and in the sea. Occurring some 251 million years ago, life nearly ceased to exist (When Life Nearly Died). It took 50 million years before the earth approached pre-extinction levels of biodiversity. Sixty-five million years ago, the earth’s biosphere took another hit – this time literally. A massive...

Tend the Garden

Do you not see that God has subjected to your use all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made His bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, both seen and unseen? Qur’an 31.20 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that...