environmentalism

Madame—

Your article, “Crime and Punishment: Jumping off the coal train,” argues that despite the benefits of coal America should switch to "sustainable" energy production. Yet, aside from a ludicrous metaphor comparing coal fuel to eating cake you make no attempt to explain what the benefits of coal actually are. In other words, your article fails to fairly analyze the sacrifice involved for America to “get off the coal train”—and once considered, the cost is hardly insignificant.

As people assemble on the National Mall to celebrate Earth Day today, the idea that man-made global warming is threatening our future seems a foregone conclusion.  But even the left-leaning New York Times recently featured an opposing view from famous physicist Freeman Dyson.  Keith Lockitch, a fellow

Going trayless and brainless, April 3rd, 2009
The Daily Princetonian
Princeton University

Sir—

Your article questions the motives of "green" measures pursued by Princeton University which call for more intense sacrifices than are commonly accepted. You conclude that such initiatives "are designed not with the true interest of the environment in mind, but rather to guilt any who disagrees with the ethos". But in fact your "green" administrators are directly acting on the ethos demanded by environmentalism.

Last night the lights went out at the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge in New York, Big Ben, Niagara Falls, the Eiffel Tower, and the Las Vegas casino strip, among many other places.

In early December of 2008, the California State legislature passed a measure that would attempt to decrease the level of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

In the early 1960s, President Kennedy challenged America to make what would be a giant leap for mankind by putting a man on the moon within the decade. Offering his own version of this challenge in a recent speech, former Vice President Al Gore called on America to transition all electricity production to “renewable” energy sources within ten years through the imposition of a tax on the burning of fossil fuels.

Children may be the next addition to the list of environmental threats. An astonishing article in a British newspaper reveals a new trend among young environmentalist couples: sterilizing themselves in an effort to save the planet. In their own words: