2020 Has Been Terrible So Far, but There's Still Good News Out There
Sometimes, it's good to take a step back
The End of Doom
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
We're All Gonna Die: Climate Change Apocalypse by 2050
Worst-case scenarios mislead far more than they enlighten.
U.N. Says 1 Million Species Will Go Extinct Without a 'Fundamental, System-wide Reorganization'
But predictions of the apocalypse are again likely overstated.
Leaked U.N. Report Says a Million Species Are at Risk of Extinction
Such predictions were wrong half a century ago, and this one is likely mistaken too.
5 Environmental and Human Trends Worth Celebrating This Earth Day
Peak population, expanding forests, more abundant resources, falling air pollution, and plenty of farmland
The World Is Getting Better, Declare Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
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.
Wild Animal Populations Down 60 Percent Since 1970
But economic growth will reverse this trend by sparing lots more land for nature during this century.
3 Statistics That Will Make You Smarter and Happier
If you read Reason you already know these three pieces of good news about global trends.
The Coming Century of Environmental Renewal
A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.
The Amazing and Abundant Future
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
Population Doomster Paul Ehrlich's New Forecast: 'Biological Annihilation'
New predictions of animal population doom are likely exaggerated.
Physical Scientists Are So Darned Cute When They Finally Understand Economics
Geologists analyze the myth of mineral resource exhaustion.
Hans Rosling, Founder of the Invaluable GapMinder, Has Died
'Facts don't come naturally. Drama and opinions do.'
How Much Do You Really Know About the State of the World?
Take Hans Rosling's Test Your World Knowledge quiz and find out
Ronald Bailey at Voice & Exit Festival of the Future in Austin, November 11-13
Topic: The End of Doom: Humanity's conquered the worst ... what's next? Register now.
Yes, the World is Getting Better. Here's Why.
Reason TV set out to cheer up Venice Beach doomsayers with evidence of positive global trends.
Sliding Down the Super-Cycle: Resource Doom Postponed Indefinitely
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham admits he was wrong about "peak everything."
One-Fifth of Earth's Plants Threatened with Extinction
Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.
Happy Earth Day: A Reprise of Failed Doom
A trip down memory lane of failed Earth Day predictions past.
Ronald Bailey at Virginia Festival of the Book—Tomorrow March 18
Talking about "environmental thought" with Jedediah Purdy and Jonathan Cannon
Bill Gates Expects an 'Energy Miracle' in Next 15 Years
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
$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 Talks About The End of Doom on C-SPAN Book TV
The anti-doomsaying book for this decade*
The End of Doom Is the Anti-Doomsaying Book for This Decade
So says Purdue University President Mitch Daniels in the Wall Street Journal
Slate Says "Upwing" With The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey
Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?
Ronald Bailey at the House of Lords on The End of Doom
The Global Warming Policy Foundation interviews me about the book too.
The End of Doom: 'One of the year's best science books,' says Wall Street Journal
Makes a wonderful Christmas gift.
Secret? Global Poverty Has Been Falling—The End of Doom
New York Times columnist reveals today the "secret" that my new book documents.
Book Party at Reason HQ in Los Angeles for Ronald Bailey and The End of Doom
Food, drinks, talk, and fun on September 15 - register now - last day to register.
Global Deforestation Rate Has Fallen by Half Says New Report
And there are far more trees than researchers previously thought - more than 3 trillion
Sunday August 30—Ronald Bailey on Radio with Bob Zadek Talking About The End of Doom
Tune in at 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
"Ignore Dire Warnings," the New York Post reviews The End of Doom
Remember the great penis scare of the 1990s?
The End is Nigh
A majority believes civilization could collapse and humans go extinct in the next 100 years.
Malthusians v. Cornucopians, a more critical review of The End of Doom
Bailey responds to the criticism below
Against the Dogmatists, a Review of The End of Doom
Modest self-promotion of my new book
Venessa Hughes of Buffalo, NY Hates The End of Doom, But You Might Like It
Library Journal reviews my new book, published today.
Ronald Bailey Lunch Book Event at Cato Institute on July 23: Register Now!
Ronald Bailey Talks The End of Doom at Cato July 23, 2015