About
This site is for anyone to post thoughts on Critical Thinking. This is to be done through working papers, essays, blogs and other means of communication.
Please send items to Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten who is a Scholar in Residence in the School of Business at Trinity Western University; Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada; Adjunct Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His research applies economic analysis to issues in trade, climate, energy and natural resources; given his background in physics, he is also interested in the interface between science and religion.
Some Recent Issues of Interest
- The Cold Truth about Climate Warming (Climate: The Movie)
- Did AI or Poor Design Nearly Crash Lou’s Airliner? Ivey Business Journal
- Are weather extremes increasing as a result of climate change?
- ‘Four Pillars of Civilization’ under Attack
- “Treason of the Intellectuals” Niall Ferguson (Dec 2024)
- De-industrialization of Europe
- ‘State of the Climate 2023‘ questions whether there is a climate crisis
- Canada’s utter failure to help Europe’s energy security while failing to collect huge rents that could help alleviate the health care crisis (a sober analysis by a former finance minister) and its rapidity towards becoming an autocratic, undemocratic state.
- Interesting article: How Power has Poisoned Academia (here) and scientific fraud
- Wokeness and private companies: Companies need to focus on profits, not social agendas.
- Comments by Dutch legal philosopher on culture and Dutch Nitrogen Policy and farmers.
- How the West was lost.
- Origins of wildfire (recent Canadian fires).
- Excellent explanation of Artificial Intelligence (chatGPT link)