Civilian use of aerial drone surveillance is a reality that is quickly approaching, and this is great news for litigious environmental groups. Currently, if an environmental group wants to surveil farmers or any other group that is utilizing natural resources, they have to go through a burdensome FOIA process, and hope that agencies like the EPA give them more information ... Read More »
From inception, the Post Scarcity Alliance has recognized that genetic engineering will play an increasingly vital role in preserving endangered species and ultimately causing an explosion of biodiversity. There have been several stories over the last few weeks about recent developments in genetic engineering of extinct species. Here is a sampling of some of these articles: Reviving the Wooly Mammoth ... Read More »
There is an astounding shortage of academic studies that analyze the negative economic impacts of environmental policies. Anyone who has ever worked for an industry that has been decimated by the stroke of a pen knows full well the damage that can result from the reckless pursuit of radical environmental policy. Nevertheless, many regulations that are proposed and adopted in ... Read More »
I recently read the book Regenesis, by George M. Church. This book provides a good preview of where the breakthroughs in genetic engineering are going to take us in the near future. We have written before about how genetic engineering will create a tectonic shift that will move us dramatically closer to a post-scarcity era of abundance. Just last week, MIT ... Read More »
I like that Elizabeth Nickson is actively managing the dialogue that is occurring in the blogosphere surrounding her book, Eco-Fascists. It is also worth noting that she maintains a blog at elizabethnickson.com. She recently wrote a post that sets the record straight on some criticism she received from blogger, William Walter Kay, on his blog ecofascism.com. For those who haven’t read ... Read More »
A recent report from the International Energy Agency projects that the U.S. will be the world’s largest oil producer by 2020. Industry Experts point to the hydraulic fracturing technologies that have opened the Bakken oil reserve in North Dakota as an abundant new resource as the cause for this rosy prediction. This American renaissance in energy production is a classic ... Read More »
In a recent opinion editorial in the Idaho County Free Press, Jim Chmelik, makes the strong case that Idaho needs to take control of its public lands. This call echoes the concern we raised in our inaugural post, the Post Scarcity Mindset, that federal management of hundreds of thousands of square miles of land leads to contrived scarcity of resources. ... Read More »
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is an executive branch agency that has been extremely active over the last two years adding new species to the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. This new flurry of activity is largely a result of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreeing to a legal settlement to take ... Read More »
In a previous post, “Biodiversity, Extinction, and Hacking the Code of Life,” I contemplated the effects that genetic engineering would have on modern environmentalism. The post suggested that open source hacking of the DNA of endangered species would pose an existential threat to the modern environmentalist movement. As technology opens new possibilities for anthropocentric manipulation of the environment, the application ... Read More »
One of the best books to detail the ravages of the environmentalist movement was recently published by Elizabeth Nickson. It is called Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage. What Elizabeth Nickson does best is identify the battle lines. She identifies the conservationist groups whose destructive agenda is impoverishing rural communities, empowering central governments and bureaucrats, and sowing ... Read More »
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