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Energy Restrictions, Not Climate Change, Put Civilizations at Risk

by H. Sterling Burnett | Feb 7, 2017

In a recent article appearing in Wired.com, radical anti-fossil-fuel activist Bill McKibben claimed human actions are putting civilization at risk. He’s right, but the source of the risk is not the one McKibben warns of; civilization is not in danger…

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Let’s Lose LOST

by Stuart Browning | Mar 26, 2013

When Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech at the Ross Sea Conservation Reception on March 19, he suggested that we should have called our planet Ocean rather than Earth. He went on to outline an international environmental agenda…