Tag: natural resources

Doctor carrying a cooler box for organ transport doctor ensures swift and safe organ transport using specialized cooler box, optimizing life-saving medical procedures

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 17, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __trending, assisted suicide, Australia, Belgium, bioethics, brain cancer, Canada, cause of death, coma, dead donor rule, euthanasia, Hippocratic Oath, homicide, medical ethics, mentally ill, natural resources, Netherlands, New Zealand, npr, organ donation, organ-harvesting, patients, recontextualization, Robert D. Truog, Spain, suffering, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Ghoulish Proposal: Killing for Organs Gets a Prestige Endorsement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 17, 2026

Bioethics, Medicine

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Transforming sick and disabled people into a killable caste objectifies them as potential natural resources to be mined or harvested. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __nedited, Australian National University, capitalism, capitalists, China, climate change, economics, Energy, fossil fuels, free market, government, health, ideology, India, Iran, medical journals, natural resources, Politics, prosperity, The Lancet, Turkey, wokeness}

This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Christianity, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, evolutionary biologists, faith and science, natural resources, Queen Mary University of London, Research, Richard Buggs}

How Faith Can Improve Rigor and Creativity in Scientific Research

_{Science & Culture
June 6, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Richard Buggs is a professor and Senior Research Leader at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, one of the UK’s largest plant science research institutes. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, coal, coronavirus, COVID-19, fossil fuels, global warming, natural resources, New York Times, obesity, United Nations}

Time to Make Fossil Fuel Industries “Pay”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2020

Bioethics

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Authoritarian central planning never works and it wouldn’t “save the planet.” It would just make us all less prosperous and free. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 5, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __nedited, activists, criminals, development, earth, ecocide, environmentalism, fish, genocide, global warming, grass, insects, Lake Erie, mice, natural resources, natural world, nature, nature rights, people, prison, snakes, The Guardian, The Hague, Toledo, United Nations}

“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 5, 2019

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism

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Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, Africa, democracy, environmentalism, fossil fuels, freedom, natural resources, nature, poverty, socialism, technocracy, tyranny, Utopia, wealth}

If the “Experts” Ruled: Science Journal Pushes International Technocratic Tyranny

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 8, 2018

Bioethics

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This paper — from the family of journals that includes Nature, the world’s most prestigious science journal! — illustrates why we can never allow these people to be in charge. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 8, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, assisted suicide, Belgium, despair, mental illness, natural resources, Netherlands, organ donation, physician, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness}

Opening a Door to Assisted Suicide Organ Donors

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 8, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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We should not look at the suicidal as natural resources. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 13, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Tagged
, __edited, __tedited, anti-humanism, ecocide, environmentalism, medical ethics, natural resources, Politics, radicalism, The War on Humans}

Radical Greens Want to Criminalize Human Thriving

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2016

Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence)

2}

If you chuckle at this, you haven't been paying attention for the last fifty years. Read More ›