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Depletion

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Earth day

Happy Earth Day! Simon Abundance Index Reports That Earth Is 570.9 Percent More Abundant in 2019 Than It Was in 1980.

An Earth Day 50 celebration of human ingenuity

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2020 5:45 PM

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Limits to growth

Physical Scientists Are So Darned Cute When They Finally Understand Economics

Geologists analyze the myth of mineral resource exhaustion.

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2017 4:00 PM

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Peak oil

Where Have All the Peak Oilers Gone?

Dancing on the grave of "peak oil" - will it stay buried?

Ronald Bailey | 1.21.2016 9:16 AM

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Commodities markets

$20 Oil Soon? Resource Depletionists Go Hide Your Heads in Shame!

How low can the slide downward from the peak of the most recent commodity super-cycle go?

Ronald Bailey | 1.11.2016 4:43 PM

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China

Is China Winning the Race for Resources?: Ronald Bailey at Cato Unbound

"Racing" for resources is economically misconceived.

Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2015 11:07 AM

Politics

The Limits of The Limits to Growth

Contemplating 1972 predictions of environmental doom, just in time for Earth Day

Ronald Bailey | 4.18.2012 1:30 PM

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