Economic Freedom the Key to Surviving Catastrophe

IPN Opinion article

Millions are suffering and thousands have died from flooding in Pakistan and China.

An extraordinary heatwave in Russia sparked fires, causing dreadful pollution and wiping out swaths of the wheat crop.

Are these weather-related disasters caused by global warming? Do they portend worse catastrophes? What can be done? Should Pakistan get more aid?

Seven Myths About Green Jobs

Author: Andrew Morriss

Publication date:

Lunes, Agosto 30, 2010

While governments around the world pour taxpayers' money into a whole range of supposedly win-win "green investments", this paper finds that these waste resources and reduce economic growth without necessarily protecting the environment.

China opts for a more realistic approach to climate change

Green protectionism vs. growth

IPN Opinion article

Author: Caroline Boin

As world delegates tried in Bonn (9-11 April to revive the climate-change talks that collapsed in Copenhagen, the USA and other rich countries were working on protectionist carbon tariffs that will harm their own economies and harm the poor even more. On top of that, these "border measures" or "adaptation mechanisms" will not even have much effect on emissions.

A skeptical look at Earth Day

IPN Opinion article

Author: Julian Morris

Earth Day is now 40 but the environmental movement is still fighting old and pointless battles, such as the one against life-enhancing pesticides. On the other hand, it is not fighting battles that really do need fighting to allow the poor to improve their lot all over the world.