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Paul Ehrlich

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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

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Panic

No, the World Is Not Heading Toward 'Mass Extinction'

Despite an apocalyptic media narrative, the modern era has brought much longer lives and the greatest decline in poverty ever.

John Stossel | 1.25.2023 12:30 AM

"60Minutes" should be ashamed of promoting perennial doomster Paul Ehrlich's failed predictions of civilizational collapse yet one more time. | CBS

Paul Ehrlich

60 Minutes Promotes Paul Ehrlich's Failed Doomsaying One More Time

The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.

Ronald Bailey | 1.3.2023 11:38 AM

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Environmentalism

The World Is Getting Better, Declare Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers

Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.

Ronald Bailey | 1.14.2019 12:40 PM

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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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Julian Simon

Resources Are Almost 5 Times as Abundant as They Were in 1980

New Simon Abundance Index elegantly refutes primitive zero-sum intuitions with respect to population and resource availability trends.

Ronald Bailey | 12.4.2018 12:40 PM

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Overpopulation

Thanos, the Villain in Infinity War, Is Just Another Environmentalist Worried About Overpopulation

The supervillain's master plan echoes the fears of "Population Bomb" author Paul Ehrlich.

Alexander C.R. Hammond | 4.30.2018 11:25 AM

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Paul Ehrlich

Civilization Is Doomed, Says Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (Again)

Half a century after The Population Bomb, Ehrlich still thinks global catastrophe is just around the corner.

Ronald Bailey | 3.22.2018 3:25 PM

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Ronald Bailey

The Amazing and Abundant Future

Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.

Ronald Bailey | 3.9.2018 12:55 PM

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Paul Ehrlich

Population Doomster Paul Ehrlich's New Forecast: 'Biological Annihilation'

New predictions of animal population doom are likely exaggerated.

Ronald Bailey | 7.12.2017 11:30 AM

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Population

Hey Population Doomsters. People Aren't Rats: New at Reason

Population density portends greater creativity, not collapse

Ronald Bailey | 2.10.2017 1:30 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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Future

A U.S. Department of the Future Is a Really Bad Idea: New at Reason

Shooting down Kurt Vonnegut's proposal for a Secretary of the Future

Ronald Bailey | 3.18.2016 1:30 PM

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Politics

A U.S. Department of the Future Is a Really Bad Idea

Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.

Ronald Bailey | 3.18.2016 1:30 PM

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The End of Doom

The End is Nigh

A majority believes civilization could collapse and humans go extinct in the next 100 years.

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2015 1:30 PM

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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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Overpopulation

Doomster Paul Ehrlich Unrepentant: "My language would be even more apocalyptic today."

And still just as wrong

Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2015 1:03 PM

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Rice

More Efficient Photosynthesis Transferred From Corn Into Rice: Could Boost Yields 50 Percent

Malthusian doomsters foiled again.

Ronald Bailey | 3.4.2015 12:03 PM

Science & Technology

Overpopulation is Sooo Over, Explains Biologist in New York Times

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2013 10:44 AM

Julian Simon

Ronald Bailey Picks Sides in the Wager Between the Cornucopians and the Collapsists

Reason Staff | 9.13.2013 1:30 PM

Politics

Betting on Humanity's Future

Cornucopians versus collapsists

Ronald Bailey | 9.13.2013 1:30 PM

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich Sounds the Trump of Doom Again: And This Time It's A "Consensus"

Ronald Bailey | 5.24.2013 3:20 PM

Politics

It's Hard to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future

The new book Future Babble explains why dart-throwing monkeys are better at predicting the future than most pundits.

Ronald Bailey | 4.5.2011 6:00 PM

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