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Our country does indeed waste energy. But it's not the family that uses their stove to cook food, their furnace to heat the house, and their washer and dryer to clean clothes that should suffer because of that. Sometimes we can't simply close our eyes and hope that...
Debates about environmental preservation and conservation often center around the role of the sentient market. Adherents of Adam Smith tend to tout the unfettered market as the means to environmental salvation, believing that eventually the price of a good reflects its true costs. Environmentalists scoff at this logic for a...
Second, the free market can actually encourage environmental preservation and conservation through market structure. Had the market been left alone in California and consumers been asked to pay the true cost of their energy, it's possible that the underlying folly of our economy may have been challenged in the...
"He cost him the election," Delaware Senator Joseph Biden ranted, saying that enough of Nader's nearly 100,000 votes in Florida would have gone Gore's way to make him President. "Whatever mistakes Gore made, we wouldn't even be talking about it if Nader hadn't run... God...
DIED. DAVID BROWER, 88, uncompromising environmental activist; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Brower helped transform the Sierra Club from a 7,000-member club into one of America's most influential environmental groups. He later founded Friends of the Earth, the League of Conservation Voters and the Earth Island Institute...