Tag: prosperity

Artistic image of mother nature. World environment and mother earth day concept

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Earth Sciences
Environment & Climate
Ethics
Tagged
, capitalism, China, environmentalism, fauna, flora, free market, human thriving, indigenous people, inspiration, Mother Earth, mountain, nature rights, New Zealand, nonprofit organizations, ownership, prosperity, radical environmentalism, rainforest, river, Russia, stewardship, wealth}

Should We Put Mother Nature on the Board of Directors?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 9, 2025

Earth Sciences, Environment & Climate, Ethics

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Nature can’t “own” anything. That’s a human construct. Moreover, nature would be represented by environmental “flesh flake” radicals. 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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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Tagged
, "chilling effect", anti-humanism, bioethicists, fauna, flora, Hong Kong, human thriving, humans, medical establishment, misanthropy, natural processes, nature rights, nihilism, prosperity, responsibilities, rights, rivers, speciesism, The Lancet}

World’s Oldest Medical Journal Endorses “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Medicine

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In other words, we, flora, fauna, and, indeed, geological features such as rivers and granite outcroppings are equal. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, Bolivia, Chile, climate change, courts, Ecuador, glaciers, India, laws, Mother Nature, nature, nature rights, prosperity, rivers, United States}

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 4, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 9, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, addiction, assisted suicide, cancer, despair, fentanyl, New York Times, prosperity, suicide}

Fewer “Deaths of Despair” Increase U.S. Life Expectancy

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 9, 2020

Bioethics

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Unstated, but perhaps a contributing factor, was the increasing prosperity we have enjoyed in country in recent years. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 24, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, anti-humanism, capitalism, China, climate change, Communism, ecosystems, environmentalism, Karl Marx, Marxism, meat, Nazism, North Korea, pollution, prosperity}

Leveraging Environmentalism to Impose “Hegemonic” Marxism

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 24, 2019

Bioethics

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Environmentalism is growing increasingly anti-capitalist and anti-human. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 20, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __edited, activists, ecosystem, Lake Erie, legislation, nature rights, Ohio, pollution, prosperity, science journals, Toledo}

Ohio Bans “Nature Rights”

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 20, 2019

Bioethics

2}

Be it noted that “nature rights” is not aimed primarily at preventing pollution. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 18, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, Energy, environmentalism, food, Holocaust denial, human rights, humans, ideology, liberty, misanthropy, nature rights, Paris, prosperity, science, Science (journal), water, Western civilization}

Science Article Castigates “Human Supremacy”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Sociology

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Environmentalism is growing darkly anti-human. That misanthropy has also seeped into science. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
October 11, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, debate, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, Granville Sewell, health, India, Israel, Natural History Museum, prosperity, Richard Owen, science, science curricula, Science Education Policy, The American Spectator, Turkey}

U.K. Museum Director Calls for Venerating Evolution as “Irrefutable”

_{Sarah Chaffee
October 11, 2018

Science Education

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The highest calling for a great museum like Dixon’s is not to be a refuge. It is to be a portal — a portal for scientific discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2018

Categories
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __k-review, berkeley, California, civilization, climate change, debate, economics, fiction, global warming, Mordor, prosperity, Scientific American, scientists}

The “I Won’t Debate” Tactic

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2018

Science Reporting

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Good grief, if we face total calamity by the end of the century, why in the world wouldn’t you debate the science? Read More ›