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Limits to growth

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Housing Policy

A Brand New City in Northern California Will Show if the State Is Serious About Housing Solutions

The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.

Steven Greenhut | 3.8.2024 7:45 AM

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Fertility rates

Can Governments Increase Birthrates? Should They?

Join Reason on YouTube Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion about the limits of population control with Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Scott Winship.

Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2023 12:57 PM

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Limits to growth

The Club of Rome's New Malthusianism-Lite Report

No overpopulation doom but humanity is still at risk by overstepping planetary boundaries.

Ronald Bailey | 4.6.2023 5:15 PM

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Progress

Thanos Was Wrong: More People Means More Wealth

Superabundance explains why a world of 8 billion people is infinitely richer than one with 1 billion.

Nick Gillespie | 12.14.2022 10:30 AM

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Extraterrestrials

Alien Civilizations Either Self-Destruct or Transcend to 'Homeostatic Awakening,' Argues New Study

And one or the other is likely our fate too.

Ronald Bailey | 5.24.2022 3:55 PM

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Environmentalism

After 53 Earth Days, Society Still Hasn't Collapsed

The Limits to Growth is still “as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.”

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2022 3:15 PM

True prophet of abundance | UI

Julian Simon

Simon Abundance Index Launch on Monday at the Cato Institute

Mark the 49th anniversary of Earth Day by celebrating human ingenuity.

Ronald Bailey | 4.19.2019 4:20 PM

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Nobel Prize

Unlimited Growth and Climate Change Economists Win Nobel Prize

Paul Romer overturns limits-to-growth nonsense, and William Nordhaus projects climate change damages.

Ronald Bailey | 10.8.2018 1:45 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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Malthusianism

Modern Malthusians Still Wrong: New at Reason

Economic growth and environmental renewal go hand-in-hand

Ronald Bailey | 12.16.2016 2:00 PM

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Economic Growth

Is Economic Growth Environmentally Sustainable?

Economic growth and environmental renewal go hand-in-hand.

Ronald Bailey | 12.16.2016 2:00 PM

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Overpopulation

Tom Hanks Endorses 'Malthusian Theory' of Overpopulation

Malthusianism might make a good movie plot, but it is just fiction.

Ronald Bailey | 10.26.2016 10:30 AM

Policy

Modernity Means More Stuff

Reviewing the massive material flows that make the modern world possible.

Ronald Bailey | 2.21.2014 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Arab Oil Embargo: Happy 40th Anniversary!

Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2013 5:31 PM

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

Politics

China's Beauty Problem

India's ugly cities are less cruel to their rural migrants than China's plush ones

Shikha Dalmia | 2.23.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Starving the Future in California

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.9.2010 7:10 PM

Policy

On Being a 21st Century Peasant

Environmentalist Bill McKibben's new book on the coming global collapse.

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2010 4:30 PM

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