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Environmentalism

After 53 Earth Days, Society Still Hasn't Collapsed

The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2022 3:15 PM

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From the Archives: May 2020

Excerpts from Reason's vaults

Reason Staff | 4.30.2020 6:00 AM

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Happy Earth Day! Simon Abundance Index Reports That Earth Is 570.9 Percent More Abundant in 2019 Than It Was in 1980.

An Earth Day 50 celebration of human ingenuity

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2020 5:45 PM

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Earth Day Turns 50

Half a century later, a look back at the forecasters who got the future wrong—and one who got it right

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2020 6:00 AM

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When Earth Day Predictions Go Predictably Wrong

It’s time to stop freaking out about humanity's imminent demise.

Veronique de Rugy | 4.25.2019 7:50 AM

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5 Environmental and Human Trends Worth Celebrating This Earth Day

Peak population, expanding forests, more abundant resources, falling air pollution, and plenty of farmland

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2019 12:05 PM

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Earth Day and the Plastics Pollution Problem

Plastic debris in the oceans is classic example of the tragedy of the commons.

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2018 10:00 AM

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Science

Scientists' March on Washington

Do researchers risk becoming just another leftwing interest group?

Ronald Bailey | 4.21.2017 1:30 PM

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Earth Day Dopes

Alarmists claim they're for "science," but what they're really for is a left-wing religion.

John Stossel | 4.19.2017 12:15 AM

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The Importance of Fracking on Earth Day

Lower gas prices probably helped President Obama get re-elected too.

Marian Tupy | 4.26.2016 7:00 AM

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Happy Earth Day: A Reprise of Failed Doom

A trip down memory lane of failed Earth Day predictions past.

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2016 3:01 PM

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Earth Day: U.S. and 170 Countries Sign Paris Climate Agreement: New at Reason

Saving the planet or just massively expanding activist and bureaucratic power?

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2016 1:30 PM

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Ronald Bailey on Climate Change Panel at Earth Day Texas in Dallas

Current EPA General Counsel Avi Garbow shares platform and discussion is moderated by Teri Donaldson of DLA Piper.

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2016 9:30 AM

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Politics

News Flash: North Korea Wins Earth Day for Record 45th Year in a Row!

Nick Gillespie | 4.22.2015 6:12 PM

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Earth Day Overload: Gov. Jerry's Brown Apocalyptic "Warning to Humanity"

Hit the snooze bar on environmentalist alarmism. Virtually everything is getting better when it comes to the state of the planet.

Nick Gillespie | 4.22.2015 5:07 PM

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Culture

Hey, Kids! The National Security Agency Wants You to Recycle!

Big Brother loves Mother Earth.

Jesse Walker | 4.20.2015 4:59 PM

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Politics

The Big Coffee Table Book of Doom!

Neo-Malthusians again predict doom to celebrate Earth Day 45

Ronald Bailey | 4.17.2015 12:01 AM

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Policy

Feel-Good Politics

The futility of showing that you care.

Windsor Mann | 5.10.2014 12:00 PM

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Culture

Earth Daze: Overcoming Environmental Hysteria

Environmentalism is now more religion than science.

John Stossel | 4.16.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: The Top Five Environmental Disasters that Didn't Happen

Reason Staff | 4.20.2011 12:33 PM

Policy

Earth Day Turns 40

Environmentalist pioneers have had it their way for four decades. It's time for a change.

Ronald Bailey | 4.20.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

And Could We Bring Back Armistice Day, Too?

Jesse Walker | 4.22.2009 4:50 PM

Environmentalism

Infinite Sink No More

Robert Poole | 3.1.1970 12:00 PM

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