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The Decade of Zero

December 28, 2009

Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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business, change, climate, economicrecovery, greendecade

I had begun to write the following: “Remember how ten years ago, at the turn of the Millennium, the media were full of retrospectives of the last ten years, or hundred years, and of starry-eyed predictions for the next ten?...

Government Expropriates Private Corporations and Nobody Screams

September 10, 2008

Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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collectivism, communism, economicpolicy, economy, fanniemae, freddiemac, property, publicopinion, socialism

In Saving Energy, Growing Jobs (published in 2007 by Bay Tree Publishing) I observed that there is a strong connection between efforts to stop climate change and a fear of Soviet-style big government. I wrote that: "Many of the arguments...

Newsflash! Environmentalist sees hope in problem-solving abilities of lawful, free-market economies

May 30, 2008

Posted by David Goldstein in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment

Tags:
charleskrauthammer, collectivism, communism, georgewill, marketbasedeconomies, socialism

In his Washington Post column of this morning, Charles Krauthammer does a very deft job of implying, without actually saying, that environmentalists are really Communists in sheep’s clothing. This is a common theme of self-described conservative writers. His article asserts...

David Goldstein
David Goldstein
Energy Program Co-Director
San Francisco
David B. Goldstein has worked on energy efficiency and energy policy since the 1970s.  Dr....
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