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My C11 column for this week is about research that illustrates how giving fishermen private shares in fish populations can help to encourage responsible use and combat fishery decline: … granting fishermen “catch shares” – renewable, and usually tradable, rights to portions of the fisheries’ annual yields – gives them a long-term stake in the [...]
Filed under: environment, food, personal
Apologies for another post-less day – summer teaching is almost over. The following, though, is for your viewing pleasure: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.661752&w=425&h=350&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Freasontv-video%2Freasontv_video_462.flv%26displayheight%3D268%26image%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.reason.tv%2F%2Fpreview%2Fethanol-start.jpg%26backcolor%3D0x000000%26frontcolor%3D0xFFFFFF%26playping%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Freason.tv%2Fstat%2Fplayme.php%26bandwidthtest%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Freason.tv%2Fstat%2Fbandwidthtest.php%26vidid%3D462%26refer%3D%26height%3D268%26width%3D480] More on ethanol here and here and here and here.
Filed under: agriculture, energy, environment
I’m not sure how Andrew Sullivan envisions it working, but it seems pretty clear to me that the feasibility of the Nordhaus/Dyson suggestion that we can reverse climate change via genetically modified carbon-sequestering trees is ultimately going to require politics to do quite a lot more than “nudge the process along”. Even if you are [...]
Filed under: environment, politics, science/tech
Ryan Avent writes: When [Matt Yglesias] or I make the decision to ride the train or burn coal for fun we consider the costs and benefits of those actions to ourselves only. We say, is this good or bad for me, given the costs of the activity and available alternatives? What we do NOT do [...]
Filed under: environment, government/law, morality, transportation
Alan Jacobs has a nice post on that topic here, where he raises the issue of environmental stewardship as his biggest barrier to joining the Barrwagon. Thoreau recently took up, with what I found to be admirable care and subtlety, the issue of whether we should do away with governmental (mis)management of natural spaces a [...]
Filed under: environment, government/law, libertarianism, morality, religion
… mere continence will do well enough, it seems. In copping to the silliness of the Democrats’ sustainability extravaganza, Ezra Klein does as good a job as one could hope for of illustrating the difference between liberal progressive approaches to government and conservative (and indeed classically liberal) ones: The more Democrats present their environmentalism as [...]
Filed under: environment, government/law, morality
I’m lovin’ it: The G-8′s failure this year to set clearly defined goals on cutting greenhouse gases that developing nations could also accept only highlights the group’s terminal absurdity. There are regular calls to make the group more relevant and democratic by expanding it. But I’ve got a better idea: let’s shut it down. It [...]
Filed under: environment, foreign affairs
If you read just one thing from the latest issue of The American Conservative, skip my article and go for Jim Webb’s must-read book excerpt on our history of failed intervention in the Middle East (sadly not available online, though Larison quotes a bit of it here). Once you’re done with that, though, head straight [...]
Filed under: economics, energy, environment, food
[UPDATE: Moving to the front, as the article is now available on-line. Once again, consider this an open thread.] My American Conservative cover essay, “Food for Thought”, arrived in my mailbox (together with the rest of the issue,* of course) this morning, which means it should soon be in your home or at a newsstand [...]
Filed under: agriculture, conservatism, economics, environment, food, government/law, libertarianism, media/culture, politics
I just spent an hour of my life writing a response, for James’s blog, to Ezra Klein’s fine post on why eating too much meat is bad for the environment. The upshot of what I had to say, of which you can get some sense if you track down the partial draft that accidentally ended [...]
Filed under: agriculture, energy, environment, food, taxation, transportation