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Fluoridation of Our Water

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Fluoridation of water, in an at best ill-advised attempt to improve dental health, not only condemns the population to significant health risks, but also represents yet another example of forced mass medication and the trampling of individuals’ fundamental right to informed

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Radio Spectra and Methane

Radio Spectra and Methane

Owen Jennings Owen Jennings is a former ACT MP bassettbrashandhide.com I am old enough to remember getting out of bed at 3.00am on cold mornings to listen to the radio broadcast by Winston McCarthy of the All Blacks playing in South Africa. No TV’s back then. McCarthy’

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It’s Coal to the Rescue, Again

Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, DC, Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such

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Granting Legal ‘Personhood’ to Nature

Granting Legal ‘Personhood’ to Nature

Viktoria Kahui Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on giving legal rights to nature. Many Indigenous peoples have long emphasised the

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Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org “Power

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A Diesel in the Shed

A Diesel in the Shed

Viv Forbes Viv Forbes managed to turn the crank handle of that big Southern Cross diesel in his father’s shed when he was about 8 years old. He and his wife Judy have spent their lives in exploration (coal, uranium, oil and gas), investment analysis, political agitation, watching the

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Greens Against Reliable, Safe, and Clean Technologies

Greens Against Reliable, Safe, and Clean Technologies

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org Despite

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Quit Clinging to Your Cars

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history

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But White Farmers Matter, Too!

But White Farmers Matter, Too!

John Klar libertynation.com The Biden administration’s assault on farmers now includes an openly racist and sexist dimension: allocating $25 billion in federal disaster relief funds to stricken farmers based solely on race and gender. The USDA has dispensed funds using this social justice criterion, employing skin color and

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Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, When I was young (many decades ago) we lived on a small family farm at Wheatvale near Warwick on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. Our lifestyle was close to the organic self-sufficient nirvana that today’s green zealots babble on about – we produced much of what we

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Why Shane Jones Sunk the Kermadecs Marine Sanctuary

Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, Director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Did vested interests prevent New Zealand from establishing a world-leading environmental marine reserve? There are strong signs that in killing off the proposal for a Kermadec

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We Need the Products They Want to Ban

We Need the Products They Want to Ban

Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist, scolded the world’s leaders by exclaiming, “How dare you?” in reference to their perceived indifference

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Urban Elites Want to Close the Farms

Urban Elites Want to Close the Farms

As magician and sceptic Penn Jillette puts it: if you live in a beach-house in the US, you probably shouldn’t be trying to tell starving people in the rest of the world that you’re’ fighting the technology that could feed their children… Unless you and yours are starving,

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The Cornucopia We Take for Granted

The Soviet-born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin once reminisced about the her childhood. Her father would sometimes bring home a special gift: an orange. She would, she said, save the orange for as long as possible, eating one precious segment a day. It’s a stark reminder to Western children today,

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The Men With the Golden Ferret

The Men With the Golden Ferret

Just because something is worth doing, doesn’t mean that it’s worth overdoing, at ridiculously extravagent expense. If you hired a team of crack mercenaries to get rid of a mouse in your kitchen, people would rightly judge you an idiot spendthrift. Spend half a million dollars to whack

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