Two environmentalist groups have filed a lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court seeking to stop a proposed plan by Minneapolis to allow for more housing construction. The proposal pitched as Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan, according to Courthouse News Service, would rezone some areas of the city to allow for more housing construction while relaxing environmental…
Radio and television talk show host Mark Levin interviewed climatologist and Cato Institute environmental studies senior fellow Dr. Patrick Michaels about climate change and climate science. During the interview, Michaels points out the reasons that some environmental scientists he knew used the greenhouse effect resulting from fossil fuel use to try to make the case…
Environmentalists decry President Trump’s border wall as an environmental disaster. But this Fox News report demonstrates there is more to the issue than wildlife species being disturbed resulting from the wall being built. Naturally, they are seeking to stop its construction.
We tend to over-romanticize nature by only seeing her as the great mother while being blind to the tyrannical side, because we are spoiled by the protective force of culture and civilization. This over-romantization of nature is often used to justify anti-human fantasies.
Breitbart reports that a new study authored by Professor Lauran Whitworth of St. Mary’s College in Maryland and published in the academic journal Feminist Theory defines the increasingly popular term ecosexual and their encounters with the natural environment. Whitworth describes one ecosexual person’s first sexual encounter with a redwood tree at Yosemite National Park. She…
Three Illinois environmentalists with the group Protect Our Parks are engaged in litigation to prevent the construction of President Barack Obama’s Presidential Center. According to the Chicago Tribune, the three assert in their lawsuit that the city of Jackson Park and Park District lack the legal ability to make the public parkland available for the…
In 1903 President Teddy Roosevelt advocated a new way to conserve America’s wilderness – one that depends on partially on hunting and gun sales. Unfortunately, decades later, that system is starting to break down.
