Category: Environment

Beyond Green

Down with Al Gore once and for all! The case for a rational energy policy. By Michael Lind, Tablet, December 17, 2024 If progressives are to be believed, the world is facing a “climate emergency” that requires the rapid elimination of fossil fuels and massive, never-ending taxpayer subsidies […]

The Tide is Turning Against Green Elites

By Joel Kotkin November 19, 2024/in Urban Affairs It is the global climate-change conference that no one cares about. The latest United Nations (UN) ‘conference of the parties’, otherwise known as COP29, is currently being hosted in oil-rich, authoritarian Azerbaijan. Not many political heavy-hitters have decided to attend […]

No Shale for Europe

No Shale for Europe by Peter Zeihan on December 3, 2024 This video was originally released on Patreon 1 week ago. If you want to see the videos as soon as they come out, join the Patreon! You’ll get early access to videos and newsletters, as well as exclusive perks […]

Local Green discovers that infinity migrants might not be so great after developer announces plans to open a migrant housing facility in his tiny Bavarian village

eugyppius Dec 01, 2024 Mass migration, as we know, causes a wealth of problems. While migrants are best known for their occasional terrorism and their penchant for perpetrating violent crimes against the locals, they have a wide range of more quotidian and therefore more significant drawbacks. Migrants cost […]

Way Off

Recently at The Signal: Andrew deWaard on why are studios releasing so few original new films. … Today: Rachel Cleetus on why global greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising. … Also: Gustav Jönsson on early signs of what the new U.S. administration is thinking about Cuba. The Signal is your […]

The Rise of the Climate Anti-Hero

November 4, 2024 Roughly two years ago, in October 2022, the fight against climate change appeared to shift all at once to outlandish stunts. After two young women threw cream-of-tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers, in London’s National Gallery, protesters hit artworks, cultural treasures, roadways, soccer games, and […]

Environmentalism in One Country

North Korea is regrowing its forests in a program of nationalist ecology. As environmental crises unfold, other countries will come to share its strategy. Oct 31, 2024 Micha Brändli/Military parade, Pyongyang This article by Dylan Levi King was originally published on Palladium Magazine on June 15, 2022. It […]

True as True Can Be

In our October 17 issue, Verlyn Klinkenborg writes about the ocean: “a complex overlapping and interweaving of structures, systems, forces, internal waves, and feedback loops, many of them defined by tiny variations in the salinity, temperature, or density of seawater”; the largest part of the Earth’s surface area; a […]

Living in a World of Storms

Brought to you by Incogni Recently at The Signal: Lucan Way on why collaboration is intensifying among the world’s most powerful autocracies. … Today: Andy Horowitz on how changes in hurricanes are changing American life. … Also: Michael Bluhm on why the U.S. and China are racing to build […]

Vegetative States

A body of recent scientific research suggests that plants can adapt to new information, predict the future, communicate with animals, and confer privately with each other. Should we think of them as sentient? In our October 3, 2024, issue, Elizabeth Kolbert reviews several recent books on the topic of […]

Meditations on the Peaks

by Ezio Salimbeni Ezio Salimbeni Aug 06, 2024 Ezio Salimbeni explores the connection between traditionalist doctrine and the natural world, emphasizing that through deeply experiencing nature one uncovers transcendent symbolism, a journey he illustrates through his own personal experiences, inspired by Julius Evola’s writings. It is no secret […]

The Green Road to Tyranny

By Joel Kotkin June 17, 2024/in Politics, Urban Affairs In all the hysteria about the threat to democracy connected to the bombast of Donald Trump, an arguably greater long-term threat is mounting, though all but ignored, from the well-funded green movement. Increasingly, as Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman […]

The end of never-ending progress?

The war on limits is self-limiting Mary Harrington May 24, 2024 Initially delivered as the first in the Protopia Conversations series, 23 May 2024 at Ateneu Barcelonès The argument which became Feminism Against Progress began as an exploration of the tensions between environmentalism and liberal feminism. To take […]

‘Like a freight train’: Videos show widespread destruction as tornadoes ravage Nebraska and Iowa, more storms pose perilous threats

Trending story April 28, 2024 ‘Like a freight train’: Videos show widespread destruction as tornadoes ravage Nebraska and Iowa, more storms pose perilous threats Parts of Nebraska and Iowa were ravaged by powerful tornadoes on Friday. Weather experts predict that new storms could bring even more destruction to […]

10 reasons not to buy an electric car

Trending story April 25, 2024 10 reasons not to buy an electric car Align: Vroom editors Paul Brian and Lauren Fix may be seasoned car industry experts, but that doesn’t mean they’re completely immune to the electric vehicle hype. “As far as looks … spectacular,” says Lauren. “Technology, […]