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Malthusianism

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Environmentalism

Population Control Isn't the Answer to Climate Change. Capitalism Is.

Discredited 18th-century economist Thomas Malthus still haunts the environmental debate.

Zach Weissmueller | 1.23.2020 10:39 AM

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Biotechnology

Bioengineering Photosynthesis Boosts Crop Growth by 40 Percent

Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.

Ronald Bailey | 1.4.2019 1:30 PM

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GMO Food

Malthusian Specter Pushed Back Further: Crops Engineered to Use 25 Percent Less Water

Yet another limit to growth recedes into the distance

Ronald Bailey | 3.6.2018 5:15 PM

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Malthusianism

Is Degrowth the Only Way to Save the World?

Welcome to the latest gussied up version of Malthusian eco-pessimism!

Ronald Bailey | 2.16.2018 12:02 PM

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Overpopulation

Malthusians Wrong Again: World Cereal Production Hits All-Time High

World grain production grew by 3 percent this year, while world population rose just 1.2 percent.

Ronald Bailey | 12.6.2017 2:55 PM

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Overpopulation

Overpopulation Scaremongering Never Gets Old

Neo-Malthusianism in the Sunday New York Times

Ronald Bailey | 6.19.2017 10:30 AM

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Peak oil

OPEC Cracks?

'Oil prices could head for another substantial fall,' says Harvard analyst.

Ronald Bailey | 3.14.2017 3:05 PM

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Peak oil

Remembering Peak Oil: Saudi Arabian Production Was Supposed to Peak in 2006

It didn't.

Ronald Bailey | 2.21.2017 3:30 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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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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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

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Biotechnology

Corn Yields Boosted 50 Percent by Biotechnologists

Malthusians are never right and never win.

Ronald Bailey | 5.17.2016 3:02 PM

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Famine

What Global Food Crisis?: Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal Review of The Reproach of Hunger

Neo-Malthusians still get it wrong: Markets and science will feed 9 billion if not blocked.

Ronald Bailey | 10.19.2015 11:19 AM

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Overpopulation

Malthus Redux: Losing the Race to Feed the World?

Review of The End of Plenty

Ronald Bailey | 7.24.2015 1:30 PM

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Earth day

The Big Coffee Table Book of Doom!

Neo-Malthusians again predict doom to celebrate Earth Day 45

Ronald Bailey | 4.17.2015 12:01 AM

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Fossil Fuels

Fight Poverty—Use Fossil Fuels

Review of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels"

Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2015 12:01 AM

Environmentalism

Can We Save Nature by Making It Economically Useless?

"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.

Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2014 1:30 PM

Environmentalism

Ronald Bailey Considers the Idea that the Way to Save Nature Is to Make It Worthless

Reason Staff | 11.10.2014 1:30 PM

Overpopulation

Overpopulation is Sooo Over, Explains Biologist in New York Times

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2013 10:44 AM

Peak oil

Peak Oil Peters Out: Neo-Malthusian Cult Website The Oil Drum Shuts Down

Ronald Bailey | 7.12.2013 4:46 PM

Malthusianism

Turning Grass and Trees into Food: Neo-Malthusians Mocked by Human Ingenuity Again

Ronald Bailey | 4.17.2013 12:21 PM

Science

Global Crop Yields Slowing

Ronald Bailey | 1.2.2013 11:12 AM

Nature

Postenvironmentalism and Technological Abundance

A review of Love Your Monsters, a collection of essays on a new kind of environmentalism.

Ronald Bailey | 1.4.2012 4:30 PM

Economics

Peak Everything?

Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorus?

Ronald Bailey | 4.27.2010 3:15 PM

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