Julian Simon Was Right: Ingenuity Leads to Abundance
We live in a world of abundance (when politicians don’t screw it up).
We live in a world of abundance (when politicians don’t screw it up).
Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.
The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
Malthusian predictions of global famines keep receding.
New Simon Abundance Index elegantly refutes primitive zero-sum intuitions with respect to population and resource availability trends.
The supervillain's master plan echoes the fears of "Population Bomb" author Paul Ehrlich.
Half a century after The Population Bomb, Ehrlich still thinks global catastrophe is just around the corner.
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
New predictions of animal population doom are likely exaggerated.
Population density portends greater creativity, not collapse
Malthusianism might make a good movie plot, but it is just fiction.
Shooting down Kurt Vonnegut's proposal for a Secretary of the Future
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.
A majority believes civilization could collapse and humans go extinct in the next 100 years.
And still just as wrong
Malthusian doomsters foiled again.
The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.
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