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from High Country News
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounded its most dire warning yet on Monday, asserting that humans’ relentless dependence on fossil fuels is unequivocally altering all of earth’s systems. The impacts are being felt everywhere, but in the Northwest United States, this summer has offered a frightening preview of a hotter future: An unprecedented heat dome broke temperature records, killing hundreds of people, scorching crops — even baking clams and mussels alive in their shells. Mount Rainier, Washington’s iconic peak, lost almost a third of its snowpack in just one heat event. Hotter, shallower rivers are killing salmon and raising tensions between farmers, fishermen, and tribes. And dozens of wildfires, some large enough to be visible from space, blanketed the continent in smoke before peak fire season even started.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Nixon's decision to end the gold redeemability of the greenback was probably the most comprehensive act of monetary expropriation of modern times.
The philosopher Michael Huemer is usually favorable to the free market, and he is also a strong defender of anarchism. Although I disagree with some of the arguments in his defense of anarchism, The Problem of Political Authority, it is an excellent book. In a recent blog post, he surprisingly suggests that taxation may in some cases be justified. He offers two examples, Pigouvian taxes on negative externalities and Georgist land taxes.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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