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By Carolyn Raffensperger In the past few weeks I’ve been listening to several debates about how we will feed nine billion humans when we reach that global number in 2050. A few weeks ago I spoke at the American Enterprise Institute’s workshop on pesticides and the precautionary principle where industry made the case that we had [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom for winning the much-deserved Nobel prize for economics. She won the prize for her work on the economics of “common pool resources”, which are defined as “natural resources that are difficult to divide up or to fence in and where what one user of the resource does can [...] By Cynthia Travis Founder & President everyday gandhis A September 21 “debate” between Robert Stavins and Steven Hayward in the Wall Street Journal asked the wrong question by a mile: “Can Countries Cut Carbon Emissions Without Hurting Economic Growth?” The question is based on several erroneous assumptions: 1) Perpetual economic growth is possible; 2) It is desirable; 3) It is moral; 4) There is [...] |
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