People looking to find employment and entrepreneurs alike are struggling due to crushing government environmental regulations and taxes. Sunday, June 9, 2019, Bill Wirtz Foundation for Economic Education Greta Wave In a piece for FEE back in October, I explained the rise in support for environmentalist parties. Greens are present in 8 out of 16…
BY PIERRE GOSSELIN – MAY 29, 2019 – No Tricks Zone Results show EU-critics were biggest winners, Greens lost in Greta’s own Sweden and managed to pick up only 7 new seats outside of Germany. Now that the dust of Europe’s election has settled and the numbers are in, it is possible to get a…
Michael Shellenberger – May 6, 2019 – Forbes Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany’s renewables energy transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world. “Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and…
Despite environmentalists being gleeful that wolves are no longer extinct in Germany, farmers are up in arms and, according to The Guardian, are trying to make the case to German lawmakers that they should have the right to shoot the wolves on sight due to the threat the wolves pose to their livestock in which…
In Germany, police have been making efforts to clear out environmentalist protesters that have established themselves in tree houses in the Hambach Forest in the western part of the country near Aachen. According to The New York Times, the environmentalists have been there for the past six years as part of an effort to halt…
Dr. Philipp Lengsfeld is a member of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), and a former member of Germany’s lower house (Bundestag). As a member of the Committee for Research and Education, he was the CDU/CSU MP responsible for the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag. As a member of the conservative Berliner Kreis…
During November of last year, animal rights activists in Germany migrated to the forests of Upper Lausitz near Germany’s border with Poland hoping to prevent a cull of a wolf pack that slaughtered area farmer sheep populations. According to the UK Telegraph, wolves were almost considered extinct in Germany during the early part of the…
