Earth Day Update: Economic Growth is the Answer

Conn Carroll / April 22, 2009

Great post by the New York Times John Tierney titled Use Energy, Get Rich and Save the Planet:

When the first Earth Day took place in 1970, American environmentalists had good reason to feel guilty. The nation’s affluence and advanced technology seemed so obviously bad for the planet that they were featured in a famous equation developed by the ecologist Paul Ehrlich and the physicist John P. Holdren, who is now President Obama’s science adviser. (more…)