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  Sacks says "Moreover, there are no “free market” or “economic” solutions.  And since corporations must have physically impossible endless growth in order to survive, corporate social responsibility is a myth.  The only socially responsible act that corporations can take is to dissolve."

  Nonsense like this encourages me to discount everything else Sacks says. There are many corporations (i.e. firms) throughout the world that have been around for years without growing. They aren't the ones you have in your 401k because you wouldn't be happy with their financial results. They tend to be family owned, responsible, and earn enough to support their employees and the family owners. They are connected with their communitites.

  If Sacks meant "socially irresponsible large corporations" he should have said so. He might have found a few supporters in the billions of people who know that capitalism works better than anything else.

  If human-kind has managed to evolve from rooting in the jungles to flying to the moon, I dare say more technically creative people will be able to find ways to evolve in changed climatic conditions. Just like they have in the past. Cheer up!

  On The fallacy of climate activism posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 100 Responses

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  The proposed carbon tax is a national disaster in the making. Watch for carbon credits to be sold cheap to polluters in favored (Democratic) states, and sold high to everyone else. Companies pass along these higher costs to consumers. The result will be huge increases in the cost of food, fuel, transportation and most everything else, just when the nation is trying to recover from the worst recession since the 1930s. No matter how much money or tax credits Congress gives to alternative energy, it will take decades to make a difference: a substantial project will take years just to get through the environmental impact studies hoops and the NIMBY. Meanwhile we will all be paying more for everything. The Administration and the Democrats in Congress are hoping all this new tax revenue will make the apparent deficit look smaller, but it won't work because they will injure or kill small enterprise in the US. But that's what they want: everyone to work for government owned or controlled companies, belong to unions and toe the line set by big brother. Welcome to Europe in the 1960s. But at least Europe had the Marshall Plan to give them wealth they could not create on their own...

  On Broad and diverse support for Waxman-Markey's American Clean Energy and Security Act posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  Just maybe...?

  Grist says the EPA concluded "that maybe, just maybe, sucking all that wet out...". Once again Grist characterizes the EPA as anti-environment.

  Actuall the EPA press release said "The Yazoo Backwater Area contains some of the richest wetland and aquatic resources in the nation, and serves as critical fish and wildlife habitat. EPA concluded that the proposed project would result in unacceptable damage to these valuable resources that are used for wildlife, economic, and recreational purposes."

  The EPA didn't think there was any maybe about it. On EPA puts kibosh on wetland-destructive Army Corps project posted 1 year, 2 months ago 2 Responses

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  Another judge legislating from the bench

  This is just another judge legislating from the bench. Fuel economy standards for SUVs should be tougher, but the remedy lies in the ballot box. It's simple... elect people who do what you want them to do. But first check they haven't already been bought by special interests like unions, companies, foreigners, lobbies and enviros. :-)
  On Bush administration's fuel-economy regs for bigger vehicles smacked down posted 1 year, 11 months ago 4 Responses

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  Our agricultural workforce is at the mall

  Fifty and more years ago farmers found Americans to bring in crops in the summer and fall. These citizens were mostly high-school and college kids. Today, thanks to bad parenting and bad government, many teens are at the mall, at summer camp, anywhere except in a productive job. Many jurisdictions don't even allow younger teenagers to work. The exceptions are the kids of our farmers, who - in the main - still believe in hard work, and do a great job keeping our bellies full.

  As usual your article gets in some Bush bashing. You might have mentioned the President's proposals for immigation reform, including a guest worker program. Proposals that were shot down by Democrats and Repubicans, who cried for "enforcing our immigation laws" without easing entry for guest workers. Years ago, we could have expected better from the Democrats. You should have assigned this failure to provide a proper agricultural workforce Congress, not to the President.On How globalization is smothering U.S. fruit and vegetable farms posted 2 years, 2 months ago 11 Responses