Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
Energy matters, and the world’s energy future will be eclectic. For an overview see this 2020 TEDxSanAntonio talk by Graham Conway The Contradictions of Battery Operated Vehicles. The video now has a warning for...
Bjorn Lomborg discusses “the energy transition” as keynote speaker for All Energy Day 2022. Lomborg warns renewable energy advocates to be careful not to exaggerate harms from climate change and global warming. Transitioning from...
National and Texas debate resolutions this year focus on policies to reduce economic inequality. Wealth and income inequality are highly-charged campaign issues with newspaper and evening news stories and comedy segments peaking in the...
For thousands of years energy technologies have advanced as knowledge expanded for discovering, transporting, and processing fuels, along with other advances in material sciences. From burning wood then peat, then coal, oil, and natural...
Transportation policies are local, state, federal. The coming year’s NCFCA topic calls for reforming federal transportation policies: Resolved: The United States Federal Government (USFG) should significantly reform its domestic transportation policy implemented by the...
For many years through the mid-1980s to 1990s we distributed a monthly publication to high school speech and debate teachers nationwide. Originally called the LD/Extemp Monthy, it was renamed Econ’87, then Econ Update. Each...
For the U.S. European country topic, which current government dietary and nutrition policies should be reformed to enable improved metabolic health and reduced medical costs in the U.S. and across Europe? U.S./Europe Nutrition and...
Economic Thinking enables speech and debate students to better understand interconnected current events and public policies. Economic principles help students see why current and proposed government policies and programs lead to unintended consequences. Since...
Water is key to prosperity across the world, from rain for agriculture to rivers for irrigation, transportation, and recreation. Too much water, like too little, causing floods or leaving land too dry, devastate and...
