Preventing economic prosperity not only produces harmful negative externalities: it is also an extremely costly way to eliminate emissions.
Articles by Connor Tomlinson
Combustion Engine Bans Won’t Make More EVs
Consumer choice must remain paramount if an economic transition toward sustainable consumption habits is to be conducted without needless suffering
How Fossil Fuels Saved Our Forests
We needed, and still need, fossil fuels. When the day comes that we don’t, we should be thankful for what their discovery did for human prosperity, and nature’s recovery.
Eco-Modernism: The Cure to Climate Nihilism
Our environmentalism must increase human prosperity if it is to work and to make a world worth living in.
The Green Movement’s Insistence on Only Renewables Emboldens Putin
Decarbonising the energy grid requires market competition and diversified supply — not becoming fifth-columnists for Russian imperialism.
Could Outer Space be the Key to Expanding our Supply of Rare Metals?
Just as the original space race was a muscular assertion of the supremacy of American enterprise and industry, this new space resource scramble is motivated by the need to reduce reliance on our totalitarian adversaries. We were first to the moon to show the world that socialism is not the way. Now, we could be first to mine the stars, to put cleaner cars on our roads.
Solving our Plastic Problem
Investment is needed in ingenious solutions to the existing pollution problem, and preventative strategies to ensure we can keep necessary living standards affordable for consumers, while reducing the intrusion of crude by-products into landfills, lakes, and dinner-plates.
Socialism Cannot Solve Climate Change
The ideological pitfalls and abhorrent track record of socialism prove that its ideas are anathema to human nature, and inadequate for solving any climate change challenges.
Will Britain’s Energy Security Strategy Deliver?
A combined strategy of repatriated gas production, and new nuclear power stations, can provide a consistent, dispatchable energy baseload for a diversified, decarbonising grid.
You Don’t Have to Become a Vegan to Beat Climate Change
Only the innovation and efficiency arising to facilitate free choice should govern what fills our farms and bellies.
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