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The following article was recently published in the special "Energy, Environment and Politics" Autumn 2006 edition of "European View," the magazine of the European People's Party in Brussels. The full magazine can be read online at http://www.epp.eu/dbimages/pdf/_copy_4.. As European nations adjust their internal and external policies regarding energy, the environment, and economic development to accommodate the needs and desires of the new European Union, there is a great opportunity to ensure that the new policies will be beneficial to the developing world, and in particular to African nations that were once European colonies. Clearly, most Africans have not benefited much from [...]

Our perception of reality and the role of government in our lives greatly influences how we view a subject like the issue of "property rights."  This nation's founders believed that life, liberty, and property were inalienable rights and that governments were instituted primarily to protect and ensure that those rights would not be taken away by force.   The "land of the free" is the prosperous nation it is today – and the beacon of light to oppressed billions the world over - largely because of these underlying principles.   Today, however, we are in danger of abandoning our founding principles and suborning [...]

Reading the headlines lately, we could not help but notice that two competing groups of evangelical Christians have been at odds over the nature and extent of human-induced climate change, as well as our nation's proper response to it    Reading between the lines, however, we believe both groups ought to be able to work together to improve the lives of people in the developing world who are the most likely to be impacted by weather conditions, whether or not they are ultimately proven to be related to global warming, and the least able to deal directly with floods, drought, and other [...]

From our beginnings two decades ago (the same year as the Live Aid concerts) as advocates for free-market approaches to environmental protection, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) has grown into an international organization with a firm belief that the twin ideals of free people and free markets are essential to creating and maintaining a clean environment.    As we began traveling to world trade and environmental summits, our hearts were stirred for those living in poverty in nations with rich natural resources, but corrupt and oppressive, or just misguided, regimes.  Over the past two years we have devised a new [...]