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Nonrenewable resources

Woman in a supermarket carrying a basket full of fresh produce. | Robert Kneschke | Dreamstime.com

Natural Resources

Julian Simon Was Right: Ingenuity Leads to Abundance

We live in a world of abundance (when politicians don’t screw it up).

J.D. Tuccille | 4.22.2024 8:05 AM

a model of the world with a city and a waterfall and a plane flying above it is held in the hands of someone seeming to wear religious robes | Igor Zakharevich | Dreamstime.com

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

earthresourcesdreamstime | Pop Nukoonrat | Dreamstime.com

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

Shellagain1 | RB

Environmentalism

The Global Environmental Apocalypse Has Been Canceled

"Environmental humanism will eventually triumph over apocalyptic environmentalism."

Ronald Bailey | 8.1.2020 1:30 PM

Earth50Dreamstime |  Regina Tolgyesi | Dreamstime.com

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

Paul Ehrlich is never right | Nerthuz/Dreamstime

Human Progress

Earth Is Nearly 520 Percent More Abundant Now Than in 1980

Thanks to the ultimate resource: the human mind

Ronald Bailey | 5.31.2019 12:17 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

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

Peak Oil? Cue Crickets Chirping

Great article asks "Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?" over at RealClear Politics*

Ronald Bailey | 9.29.2016 9:30 AM

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Peak oil

U.S. Oil Reserves Bigger Than Saudi Arabia's

Peak oil still nowhere in sight

Ronald Bailey | 7.5.2016 12:31 PM

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Policy

Sliding Down the Super-Cycle: Resource Doom Postponed Indefinitely

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham admits he was wrong about "peak everything."

Ronald Bailey | 5.13.2016 1:30 PM

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Peak oil

A Response To: Where Have All the Peak Oilers Gone?

Dancing on the grave of peak oil clearly annoys somebody.

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2016 3:10 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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The End of Doom

Ronald Bailey Talks About The End of Doom on C-SPAN Book TV

The anti-doomsaying book for this decade*

Ronald Bailey | 1.1.2016 1:30 PM

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The End of Doom

Slate Says "Upwing" With The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey

Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?

Ronald Bailey | 12.15.2015 10:11 AM

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Peak oil

Oil Prices to Fall to $20 Per Barrel?

Surprise: Oil production did not peak on Thanksgiving Day 2005

Ronald Bailey | 9.11.2015 11:03 AM

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The End of Doom

Malthusians v. Cornucopians, a more critical review of The End of Doom

Bailey responds to the criticism below

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2015 12:32 PM

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The End of Doom

Against the Dogmatists, a Review of The End of Doom

Modest self-promotion of my new book

Ronald Bailey | 8.13.2015 4:02 PM

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China

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

China Overpays: Still In Thrall to Failed Ideology of Central Planning, Argues Ronald Bailey

Ronald Bailey | 7.13.2015 12:07 PM

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Policy

Mistaking Peak Prices for "Peak Everything"

Economic Super-cycles and Falling Commodity Prices

Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2015 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Arab Oil Embargo: Happy 40th Anniversary!

Ronald Bailey | 10.16.2013 5:31 PM

Politics

Betting on Humanity's Future

Cornucopians versus collapsists

Ronald Bailey | 9.13.2013 1:30 PM

Policy

How Free Markets and Human Ingenuity Can Save the Planet

A review of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas.

Ronald Bailey | 4.12.2013 1:30 PM

Politics

United States: 114th Out of 143 on the Happy Planet Index

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2012 4:54 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

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