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#105: Pierre Desrochers on population and climate change (4/22/24)

Pierre Desrochers is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His main research interests are economic development, technical innovation, business-environment interface, and energy policy and food policy. He has published over 50 academic articles on these and other subjects in a wide range of academic disciplines. Desrochers has been the recipient of several awards for his work on environmental policy issues, including the 2017 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award (Competitive Enterprise Institute). He is the author of over 200 op-eds on a variety of subjects in major international media including the Wall Street Journal and Le Monde. He is the author of The Locavore’s Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet, arguably the broadest case made on behalf of the economic, social and environmental virtues of the modern agri-business and transportation industries.

Book website:
https://populationbombed.com

Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0993119034/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538048671&sr=1-1&keywords=Population+Bombed%21+Exploding+the+Link+Between+Overpopulation+and+Climate+Change

Op-eds: https://populationbombed.com/op-eds/

#104: April FIER (Friends of IER) Podcast 4/11/24

Guests:

Paige Lambermont: Paige is a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the Center for Energy and Environment. In her role, she covers the electrical grid, energy regulation, nuclear power issues, and other free-market energy topics. In 2024, Paige was selected to be a Visiting Fellow for the Independent Women’s Forum.

Jordan McGillis: Jordan is City Journal’s Economics Editor. Previously, McGillis was a Manhattan Institute Paulson policy analyst. Before that, he was deputy director of policy at the Institute for Energy Research. McGillis’s research and writing on energy, technology, and economic progress have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the New York Post. He writes regularly for National Review and the American Spectator and he has been cited by the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, the Congressional Research Service, and the U.S Defense Department’s Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs.

Travis Fisher: Travis is the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute. He has nearly 20 years of experience in energy policy, including leadership roles at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Institute for Energy Research, Department of Energy, Electricity Consumers Resource Council, and Heritage Foundation.

Links:

A Nuclear Plant's Closure Was Hailded As A Green Win. Then Emissions Went Up: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/nuclear-plant-closure-carbon-emissions-new-york

How the Inflation Reduction Act Bankrolls EPA Overreach: https://www.cato.org/blog/how-inflation-reduction-act-bankrolls-epa-overreach

Biden Administration Releases Its Electric Truck Mandate: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/biden-administration-releases-its-electric-truck-mandate/

Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/climate/climate-change-carbon-capture-ccs.html

#103: Caleb Jasso on Energy and Conflict in the Middle East (2-7-24)

Links:

How Will the Israel-Hamas Conflict Affect Oil Prices? - Discourse Magazine: https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/how-will-the-israel-hamas-conflict

Rising Shipping Costs Will Impact Oil and LNG: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/rising-shipping-costs-will-impact-oil-and-lng/

Houthi Attacks Continue, Iran Launches Their Own: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/houthi-attacks-continue-iran-launches-their-own/

#102: Levi Russell on Energy and Economics (1/31/24)

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/levirussell

No End in Sight for Our Gasoline Use: https://www.realclearenergy.org/2024/01/17/no_end_in_sight_for_our_gasoline_use_1005273.html

Predictably, the Rush to Electric Cars Is Imploding: https://www.realclearenergy.org/2023/12/06/predictably_the_rush_to_electric_cars_is_imploding_997058.html

Is Our Freedom of Movement in Peril? https://www.realclearenergy.org/2023/06/29/is_our_freedom_of_movement_in_peril_943760.html

#101: Isaac Orr on EPA's Power Plant Rule (8/21/23)

Links:

https://www.americanexperiment.org/reports/american-experiments-comments-on-the-environmental-protection-agencys-carbon-rule

#100: Jordan McGillis on self-driving cars


Autonomous Now: Why We Need Self-Driving Technology and How We Can Get It Faster

https://manhattan.institute/article/why-we-need-self-driving-technology-and-how-we-can-get-it-faster