Environmentalism
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Internal Combustion Engines: The Great Economic Equalizer
Internal combustion engines empowered millions to participate in the modern economy. Restrictions on their use hit the poor hardest.
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The Lesson of The Lorax Isn’t What You Think
Property rights are an excellent way to ensure wise stewardship of natural resources.
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Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages
Cloud seeding is a cost-effective, free-market alternative to billion-dollar water infrastructure projects. It can provide flexible, locally driven solutions to western water shortages.
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California’s Water Crisis Isn’t a Drought—It’s Bad Policy
Decades of subsidies, mispricing, and politically protected water allocations have left households paying the highest costs while agriculture wastes the most.
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28 Homes Rebuilt in a Year: Why LA’s Fire Recovery Is Stalled
Los Angeles doesn’t lack urgency — it lacks functional markets. With 13,000 homes destroyed and just 28 rebuilt, the state’s insurance restrictions and building mandates are turning a natural disaster into prolonged paralysis.
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Davos Chickens Come Home to Roost
Davos elites’ relevance may not quite be at an end, but it’s hard to imagine it ever regaining the reputation or status it once had.
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China’s Rare Earth ‘Monopoly’ — and Why Markets Will Break It
The minerals aren’t rare. China’s marginal advantage is a willingness to accept human and environmental costs other nations eschewed.
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America’s Next Industrial Geography: Wherever the Power Is Cheap
Data centers will power the next century, but the grid isn’t ready. The quest for capacity is reorganizing political alliances and showing up in rate hikes.
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COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts
Bureaucracies, conferences, and consultants do nothing for those most impacted by environmental degradation. Real progress in the Amazon starts with secure property rights, not paternalism.
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Data Centers Aren’t the Only Reason Electricity Prices Are Surging
Government regulations and new taxes are adding a hidden ‘policy premium’ to electricity costs.
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Internal Combustion Engines: The Great Economic Equalizer
Internal combustion engines empowered millions to participate in the modern economy. Restrictions on their use hit the poor hardest.
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The Lesson of The Lorax Isn’t What You Think
Property rights are an excellent way to ensure wise stewardship of natural resources.
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Cloud Seeding: A Better Way to Address Water Shortages
Cloud seeding is a cost-effective, free-market alternative to billion-dollar water infrastructure projects. It can provide flexible, locally driven solutions to western water shortages.
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California’s Water Crisis Isn’t a Drought—It’s Bad Policy
Decades of subsidies, mispricing, and politically protected water allocations have left households paying the highest costs while agriculture wastes the most.
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28 Homes Rebuilt in a Year: Why LA’s Fire Recovery Is Stalled
Los Angeles doesn’t lack urgency — it lacks functional markets. With 13,000 homes destroyed and just 28 rebuilt, the state’s insurance restrictions and building mandates are turning a natural disaster into prolonged paralysis.
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Davos Chickens Come Home to Roost
Davos elites’ relevance may not quite be at an end, but it’s hard to imagine it ever regaining the reputation or status it once had.
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China’s Rare Earth ‘Monopoly’ — and Why Markets Will Break It
The minerals aren’t rare. China’s marginal advantage is a willingness to accept human and environmental costs other nations eschewed.
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America’s Next Industrial Geography: Wherever the Power Is Cheap
Data centers will power the next century, but the grid isn’t ready. The quest for capacity is reorganizing political alliances and showing up in rate hikes.
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COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts
Bureaucracies, conferences, and consultants do nothing for those most impacted by environmental degradation. Real progress in the Amazon starts with secure property rights, not paternalism.
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Data Centers Aren’t the Only Reason Electricity Prices Are Surging
Government regulations and new taxes are adding a hidden ‘policy premium’ to electricity costs.