Today, all media outlets exploded with the news that the leader of the Women GERB party and former regional governor of Pernik, Irena Sokolova, was arrested during a raid by the prosecutor's office in connection with the water crisis in the city. Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, was also detained after special forces …
More »The failure of green socialism in East Germany
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 …
More »Why I'm no longer a climate activist
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.
More »The Brickell Paradox - More Soot, More Subsidies
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 …
More »Ep. 42: The Air in Sofia with Rashid Rashid
Links: Interactive air quality map Air quality standards For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the podcast audio by clicking the “Download” button in the player above. Don’t forget to like and share on Facebook and write a comment with your opinion and/or criticism about this …
More »What are the positives of high-rise construction?
High-rise construction is not particularly popular in Sofia. Whether it is because it blocks someone's view or because it attracts new residents/workers to a neighborhood that the locals don't like, high-rise construction has recently become a favorite punching bag for politicians, public figures, and ordinary citizens. Quite unusually, it seems on this issue...
More »Ep. 23: Ecologist Rashid Rashid on "Vision for Sofia" and global climate change
04:25 - The "Vision for Sofia" project and the problems of the capital 48:11 - Global climate change Links Rothbard on ecology: Part 1, part 2 "Vision for Sofia" The Mises Institute on global climate change For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking on the "Download" button in ...
More »What is economic value? - response to Evgeny Dainov
Evgeni Dainov, one of the most famous public intellectuals in Bulgaria, published an article a few days ago about the "economists". A text in which he criticizes at length what he describes as the "economic" way of thinking. As someone who considers himself an economist, I was of course intrigued, but unfortunately I was left extremely disappointed...
More »Libertarian Manifesto Against Environmental Pollution I
Murray Rothbard, "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto" Even if we assume that natural resources are entirely private and that the free market would preserve them much better than government regulation, what can we say about the problem of environmental pollution? Wouldn't we suffer from increased pollution caused by...
More »No, natural resources are not about to run out.
Guest author: Krasen Stanchev Here's what I had to comment on the sighs of an old friend... The calculations for the resources of humanity on the occasion of August 2 are not just incorrect, dear Petko (Simeonov), but they are also incorrectly conceived, calculated and explained. From the "Club of Rome" to now, the resources have "run out" of about ...
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