Environment
Pesticides are good for you
IPN Opinion article
A scare story about pesticides and prostate cancer in the Caribbean made big headlines with little or no proof: in fact, Nature offers more fatal threats than pesticides do. This sort of alarmism undermines trust in science and in chemicals and it causes real damage to health and the environment.
Lessons from agriculture reform in New Zealand
“If you want to kill an industry, subsidise it”: Agricultural reform in New Zealand and beyond
Montreal Protocol and ozone crisis that wasn't
IPN Opinion article
Governments and activists are celebrating from 12-21 September the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol that saved the ozone layer - or did it? This analyst shows how other factors in real life up in the stratosphere had more effect than the CFC ban. He fears similar hype will lead to radical and expensive policies in the attempts to alter climate change - and the cost will hit the poorest hardest.
Water provision for the poor: how ideology muddies the debate
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Cap and Blockade
IPN Opinion article
A seventh EU member state has decided to take legal action against the Commission, highlighting the absurdity of the growth-retarding Kyoto Protocol and similar "cap and trade" schemes, which would be enormously expensive and relatively ineffective at addressing climate change.