Environment

The private management of public utilities is a topic that stirs up a lot of heated emotions. Many people instinctively believe that public utilities such as electricity, water, and the like are best managed by the state. Alas, in most cases this position is rooted in emotion rather than reason. This is very clearly evident …

I dedicate this article to my friend Vladimir Karolev, with whom we have repeatedly discussed the concessioning of water, district heating, resorts, beaches and services. [i] “Bath” or “shower”: vital signs of the problem This question did not, for example, face the residents of Sofia in 1994 and early 1995. The reason is very simple …

Author: Ivan Kalchev SOIL AS AN ECONOMY If we open a classic textbook on soil science, on the first page we will read that "soil is the surface layer of the earth's crust, in which plants develop and which has the property of fertility". In an equally boring textbook we can read about economics (in the sense of "economy", and ...

Socialism, unlike capitalism, causes severe damage to the environment. To give a clear example of this, but also to avoid the subjective factor of domestic reality before and after 1989, let's look at what the situation was in East Germany (GDR) compared to West Germany (FRG). In 1968 …

Author: Rashid Rashid I remember 2006, when I was a third-year student majoring in Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Forestry University, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was shown in our auditorium. I was under the influence of the film for several days. I was completely convinced that global warming was the thing I had been waiting to fight all my life.

You may have noticed how in recent days the media, and especially a national television station, have been inundating us with constant information about the climate apocalypse, which seems to be about to plunge our planet into horrors such as fires, floods and wetter summers. These PR exercises, of course, are not accidental. As of today, globally …

Sofia is a city of contradictions. Our capital has some of the largest separate parks in Europe, it is located in close proximity to a natural park, but despite this, the city's residents regularly express dissatisfaction with the lack of green spaces. To understand what this paradox is due to, we cannot …

Author: Vladislav Panev Bulgarian energy is the sector with the least real market and the only way to explain the processes in it is with a strong influence of the backstage. Varna TPP, for example, was an absolutely unnecessary asset while it was owned by CEZ. After the Czechs sold it to the former minister Danail Papazov (later he went …

The climate change movement and the fanaticism of most of its supporters are not new, but they are starting to become more and more widespread, gaining more and more airtime and influence. Don't use straws, throw away separately, don't eat meat, don't reproduce. Every day we hear a different ...

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