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Articles by Lea Booth
Net Zero and the Law of Diminishing Returns
Human prosperity has been growing exponentially for more than two centuries. The quality of life of billions of people has significantly improved as a result of trade liberalisation and the opening up of international markets. The number of people living in extreme poverty—defined as subsisting on less than $1.90 per day—has fallen from 89 percent in 1820 to just under 10 percent today.
Quillette Cetera Episode 17: Too Gay for the Christian Church, Too Problematic for the Woke Church
In this week's episode of Quillette Cetera I sit down with my friend Melody Rachel, a multifaceted artist from New Zealand who currently resides in Sydney. We discuss her upcoming one-woman show Demo, which she will be performing at the Sydney Fringe Festival. The show explores her complex feelings of alienation as she navigates through various communities—being a lesbian, a Christian, and an "anti-woke" artist who challenges the current heterodoxy of the Arts world.
AIs Will Be Our Mind Children
Science / Tech AI Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.
A Life in the Fray
A review of The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone Left Right and Center by Martin Peretz, 351 pages, Wicked Son (July 2023) In 1974, Martin Peretz purchased the New Republic magazine, which had been the preeminent weekly journal of liberal journalism and opinion in the United States since it was founded in 1914. The price was $380,000, roughly 2.3 million in 2023 dollars.
Humanity Should Split More Atoms
A review of The Case for Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future by Robert Zubrin (Polaris Books 2023). In a very literal sense, energy technologies have molded humanity. The invention of cooking with fire by Homo Habilis cut the metabolic energy needed to digest meat and made it safer to consume, allowing the primates to eat more animals.
Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit — Environmental Progress
By C. P. Colum and Lea Booth in collaboration with The Blind Spot. Last August, in an amalgamation of ‘The Green New Deal’ meets ‘Build Back Better’, President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act gifted the renewables industry with billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded subsidies. What few backing the bill realized was that the largest beneficiary would likely be China due to its expansive grip on the global solar photovoltaic (PV) industry.
Animal Liberation Later
I. One of the strange pathologies of our time is our eagerness to condemn previous generations for failing to observe contemporary ethical norms—from the cancellation of famous singers to the reassessment (and even revision) of celebrated authors. While it’s necessary to confront the past honestly, it’s also important to put history in context.
The Tragedy of Indian Point
Two years ago, on April 30, 2021, the final reactor at New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant ceased operation. This final closure (the plant’s first reactor was shuttered in 1974, the second in 2020) brought to an end a decades-long saga over the 2,000-megawatt behemoth on the Hudson River.
A Mixture of Pride and Shame
It was December 2017, and my wife and I were at Heathrow airport, waiting to board a flight to Germany. Just before setting off for the departure gate, I could not resist checking my email one last time. My attention sharpened when I saw a message in my inbox from the University of Oxford’s Public Affairs Directorate.
Disquiet on the Western Front
My youthful reading of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 book, All Quiet on the Western Front, transformed my mental image of the past, destabilising my previous impressions of war, which had been largely absorbed from Hollywood spectacles. The novel follows the First World War experiences of some young German infantrymen, and it portrays war as long stretches of boredom and misery punctuated by eruptions of terror and horror.
Chernobyl Revisited
Nuclear Energy Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response to the meltdown. 26 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Lea Booth - Quillette
If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession.
The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance
Nuclear energy is in the ascendant. Nations across the globe, lured by the prospect of clean, secure, and reliable power, are announcing that they are extending the lives of their nuclear plants or planning to build new ones. These nations include: the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, Sweden, Ukraine, South Korea, Japan, China, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, and Ghana.
Chesterfield power grid has largely stayed safe
Chesterfield power grid has largely stayed safe By ops@our-hometown.com | on January 25, 2023 BY LEA BOOTH CONTRIBUTING WRITER In late December, attacks on the U.S. power grid – in North Carolina and Oregon – drew attention to the security of the nation’s electrical infrastructure and raises the question for local residents: How safe are Chesterfield County’s power substations?
Germany's Energy Catastrophe
Lignite Power Plant in Neurath, Germany. Shutterstock If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession. This article is for paying subscribers only. Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in
Statement on Proposed Drug Injection Sites — California Peace Coalition
Oct 28 2021 We are writing as cofounders and members of the California Peace Coalition, a formal coalition of parents of homeless children addicted to illicit drugs, parents of children killed by fentanyl, recovering addicts, homeless service providers, and community leaders.
Shut Down Drug Death Markets Now! Our Open Letter to the People of California About the Threat to Our Children — California Peace Coalition
August 11, 2021 Dear Fellow Californian, We are writing as parents of children at risk of imminent death from fentanyl, as parents of children killed by fentanyl, recovering addicts, and concerned citizens, to warn of the imminent threat to California’s children from fentanyl, and to invite you to join us in our campaign. Our mission is to shut down the state’s drug death markets, win psychiatry for all, and move from a Housing First to Shelter First policy on homelessness.
Ramallah For Beginners
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News - California Peace Coalition
July 28, 2021 Sheriff Alex Villanueva Hall of Justice 211 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 229-1700 Dear Sheriff Villanueva, Thank you for taking action to end the homeless encampments in Venice Beach with care and compassion. The failure of both the state of California and the city of Los Angeles to deal with this increasingly dangerous and deadly situation required that you take action.
Democratic Socialism is a Scam
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