Category: Politics
The Democratic Party’s Tone Deafness Undermines Its Message on the Environment
To say that the election of Donald Trump has been bad for the environment is an understatement. Though many conservatives conveniently ignore it, he has also been bad for principles of conservatism. He has rejected […]
Protecting Future Generations: The Environment/Abortion Dilemma
Shortly after President Trump announced that the United States would pull out of the Paris Agreement, I ran across the following Facebook post: I’m not certain how many yet to be born children of the […]
Acts of God vs. Acts of Man
Hurricane Harvey wreaked devastation across Texas in August/September 2017. After having endured flooding of my home in Louisiana just one year before, my family and I watched the water slowly rise once more as it […]
The Irony of Southern Evangelical Rejection of Climate Science: “Faith Hijacked by Politics”
I am from the “South”: the southern United States. The South is home to arguably the most robust concentration of biological natural resources in the U.S.—from forests to wetlands to extremely high levels of biodiversity. […]
Beyond Biblical Stewardship: The Utilitarian Conservative Case for Biodiversity Protection
What if I told you that a proposed industrial development that would employ 5,000 workers may not proceed because it would destroy habitat of a scorpion species? Would you argue that the development and the […]
The Rural Environment
In simple terms, this project arose out of a desire to bridge a gap in discourse between stereotypical “environmentalists” and stereotypical “rural conservatives”—a gap that is widening. I say “stereotypical” because these two categories are not mutually […]
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