For at least forty years, scientists and policy makers have considered addressing climate related issues by means of climate engineering, or as it more commonly referred to, geoengineering. A prime example is found in a story published in Newsweek that proposed (albeit with reservations) to use geoengineering to fix a climatic “problem”:
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. Continue Reading...
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February 12, 2015
Worldwide Freedom Is Under Threat
Global Democracy and freedom are under attack. Freedom House, a nonprofit organization which monitors freedom and advocates for democracy and human rights just released the 2015 “Freedom in the World” report. Continue Reading...
February 11, 2015
Fossil Fuel Divestment: Economically Reckless and Morally Callous
February 11, 2015
Radio Free Acton: Elise Graveline Hilton on Human Trafficking
February 11, 2015
Book Giveaway: Win All 4 Primers on Faith, Work, and Economics!
Through Christian’s Library Press, the Acton Institute has published four tradition-specific primers on faith, work, and economics, including Baptist, Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Reformed perspectives. Each offers a distinct contribution to the subject, and when taken together provides a rich and coherent framework for Christian stewardship. Continue Reading...
February 10, 2015
A Price is Signal Wrapped in an Incentive to be Coordinated by God
February 10, 2015
Mike Rowe on the minimum wage: There’s no such thing as a ‘bad job’
In the latest addition to Mike Rowe’s growing catalog of pointed Facebook responses, the former Dirty Jobs host tackles a question on the minimum wage, answering a man named “Darrell Paul,” who asks:
The federal minimum wage is $7.25 and hour. Continue Reading...
February 10, 2015
How Christianity Gave Us the Modern World
February 10, 2015
Now Available: ‘A Treatise on Money’ by Luis de Molina
February 10, 2015