In Idaho, state wildlife biologists are doing something they never learned in college—teaching trout how to eat native foods. It seems that the hatchery-raised fish, fed a diet of protein pellets instead of stoneflies, have developed rather discriminating palates. They react to worms and other traditional fare the way most five-year-olds do to broccoli. This […]

Deep ecologists urge us to “return to nature”. If we reconnect with nature in a primitive, spiritual way, we may spare mother earth. Reject science, technology, and the market for small-scale, Edenic lifestyles. I like their goals of environmental protection and sustainability, but their means are dangerously misguided. A “return to nature” will increase our […]

Let’s celebrate our most creative laborers — the entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs have been neglected by economists and ignored or derided by environmentalists. Environmentalist Al Gore sees entrepreneurial innovation as “alchemy of a very dangerous form”. Economist Mark Casson notes that economic modelling “leaves no role for the entrepreneur.” The economics discipline has become ever more abstract […]