| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| FrontReport | Anti-Human Earth Day | Edward Hudgins | 4/22/2005 |
| Description: Earth Day marks the worship by eco-extremists of the planet itself at the expense of all we humans who inhabitant it. |
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| FrontReport | The Real Resource | Edward Hudgins | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: There is no such thing as a "natural resource," and we need not fear using them up. The human mind is the ultimate resource and our only fear should be of restrictions on our freedom to use them. |
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| Article | Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual | Edward Hudgins | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in every state and county. Its current and most serious manifestation was fashioned by an international organization with the explicit goal of replacing the autonomy of individuals over their own land with a collectivist control system that ultimately destroys the natural rights of each citizen. |
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| Miscellaneous | November, 2004 Soundings | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Educational atrocities, the cost of government regulation, Mexican immigration, environmentalism, health-care cost incentives. |
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| Perspectives | Hollywood Canonizes an Eco-Terrorist | Robert Bidinotto | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: If violence seems more prevalent today, it is because influential people are more ready to glamorize it. Consider the coming canonization of Paul Watson, one of the Founding Fathers of modern eco-terrorism. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Grinding Humans into the Mud | Edward Hudgins | 4/22/2004 |
| Description: Bush Sr. pandered to evironmentalists and his son is following in his footsteps. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Environmentalism | | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World By Bjørn Lomborg; Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment By Thomas R. DeGregori; Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law Edited by Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners; In a Dark Wood: The Fight over Forests and the Rising Tyranny of Ecology
By Alston Chase. |
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| Article | Death by Environmentalism | Robert Bidinotto | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: What does it mean, in practice, to hold a philosophy that values pristine nature, apart from any use that humans may make of it? The question is urgent because just that is the fundamental premise of the environmental movement, and the consequences are human deaths. |
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| Article | Better Never? | Sam Kazman | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: The Precautionary Principle is the idea that society should permit no new technologies to be developed without the certainty that they will cause no environmental harm. But to stop technologies in their infancy may well mean stopping them dead. And given that so much of human survival and flourishing depends on new technologies, stopping technology means curtailing civilization. |
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| Center News | Five Speakers Spark ''A Meeting of Minds'' | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: On November 1, one hundred and thirty people attended The Objectivist Center’s one-day conference, “A Meeting of Minds,” held in New York City. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Environmental Risk | | 12/1/2003 |
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| Op-ed | Extracting Ourselves from the Wetlands Quagmire | Edward Hudgins | 8/4/2003 |
| Description: Only moral confusion or worse - a deep hatred for all things human could cause anyone to put the welfare of bugs and bogs over people. But individual humans, not pests and damp dirt, are of supreme value and have rights. |
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| Interview | Power to the Purchasers! | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Fran Smith's Consumer Alert is a free-market group that believes consumers will benefit more from a market economy than from government regulation. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, April 2002 | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: The Skeptical Environmentalist and Bjorn Lomborg, Oscar nominated Sound and Fury - controversy about allowing some deaf people to hear, Evils of Communism, Terrorists attacks focus values. |
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| Op-ed | Credentials and Criticism in the Green Movement | Jim Peron | 3/5/2002 |
| Description: Bjørn Lomborg has been vilified for writing his book, The
Skeptical Environmentalist because he is supposedly unqualified to
write. But the history of the environmental movement shows that they
have never much cared about credentials when they agreed with the
ideology. |
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| Op-ed | Maybe we can smile, the environment is looking pretty good. | Jim Peron | 12/19/2001 |
| Description: Maybe we can smile, the environment is looking pretty good.
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| Op-ed | Urban Sprawl is just another name for growth and prosperity | Charles Tomlinson | 12/17/2001 |
| Description: Urban Sprawl is just another name for growth and prosperity
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| Op-ed | Burning Stupid: Bad Forest Management in the West | Charles Tomlinson | 9/6/2001 |
| Description: Bad forest management practices have increased the devastation
of fire on western lands.
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| Op-ed | Op-Ed: Let's Make Earth Day A Religious Holiday | Robert Bidinotto | 4/15/2001 |
| Description: Environmentalism shares all the features of religion, so why not treat it like one? |
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| Commentary | Environmentalism: Don't Judge It by Its Extremists. | Patrick Stephens | 2/1/2001 |
| Description: The environmental movement should not be judged by extremist groups such as the Environmental Liberation Front, Patrick Stephens writes. Rather, environmentalism ought to be judged by the policies that the movement's mainstream espouses. One of those policies has been fatal to millions. |
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| Excerpt | The Green Machine | Robert James Bidinotto | 5/1/1993 |
| Description: An excerpt from Robert Bidinotto's text The Green Machine in which he traced the origins of today's environmentalism, challenged its philosophical premises, and debunks mnany of its crises. |
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| Study Guide | Foundations Study Guide: The Environment | James Lennox | |
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| Audio | Green Cathedrals: Modern Spiritual Poverty and the Rise of Environmentalism | Robert James Bidinotto | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. Robert James Bidinotto traces the environmental movement to its religious roots, challenges its claims of Western spiritual bankruptcy, and shows how the modern secular worldview can incorporate a sense of the sacred.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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