All Blog Posts Tagged 'Environmentalism' (9)

By Alan Caruba



I came of age in the 1950s during a period when Joe McCarthy was raising hell about communists in the federal government. He was spectacularly inept, often made intemperate and inaccurate charges, but for the most part he was right. He managed to alienate his fellow Republicans and…

Continue

By Alan Caruba

In 1517 Martin Luther set off the Protestant revolution against the Catholic Church that led to the spread of the then-new movement as a response to the corruption of the Church. It took time for it to establish itself as an alternative and was greatly aided by the invention of…

Continue

By Alan Caruba

Every day EcoWatch.org sends me an email that features links to several articles on issues they regard as urgent and important. If I had no knowledge of science or much else, I would be spending my days in a state of panic and that would be just fine with the EcoWatch folks.

In late February, one of the articles to which one could link was “Top Earth…

Continue

By Alan Caruba

The most obnoxious and hypocritical people are those who are always preaching a “greener” way of life, insisting that anything that constitutes our modern lifestyles is destroying the Earth and depleting its natural resources. Never mind that we depend upon oil, natural gas, coal, and a host of…

Continue

By Alan Caruba



Anyone who has been paying any attention to the environmental movement has got to have concluded it is insane.



• While the United States stands poised on defaulting on its ever-growing debt—the highest in the nation’s history;



• While wars and insurrections are waged in the Middle East, across northern Africa, and in the Ivory Coast;



• While Japan struggles to deal with a major earthquake and nuclear plant meltdown;



• While… Continue

By Alan Caruba



According to a new book, “The Healthy Home”, every single room in your home or apartment is lethal. You would be better off living in a tent in the woods somewhere as far as the authors are concerned.



Among the life-threatening hazards is the need to remove your shoes before entering your home to avoid walking around “unwittingly in car oil, pesticides, animal waste” and other “toxins.”



And did you know that “non-stick pots and pans release… Continue

Continue

Continue

Continue