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The End of Doom

"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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Progress

2020 Has Been Terrible So Far, but There's Still Good News Out There

Sometimes, it's good to take a step back

Ronald Bailey | 8.18.2020 3:30 PM

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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

The End of Doom? | Ronald Bailey

Environmentalism

Apocalyptic Thinking Is Wrong

A new book explains why optimism is amply justified.

Ronald Bailey | 12.24.2019 1:25 PM

The end is never as nigh as prophets say | Alphaspirit/Dreamstime

Climate Change

We're All Gonna Die: Climate Change Apocalypse by 2050

Worst-case scenarios mislead far more than they enlighten.

Ronald Bailey | 6.5.2019 10:20 AM

Rhino horn is not an aphrodisiac | CahthwithersDreamstime

Extinction

U.N. Says 1 Million Species Will Go Extinct Without a 'Fundamental, System-wide Reorganization'

But predictions of the apocalypse are again likely overstated.

Ronald Bailey | 5.6.2019 5:30 PM

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Extinction

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.

Ronald Bailey | 4.26.2019 10:45 AM

No gloom and doom | Giovanny Kilapong/Dreamstime

Earth day

5 Environmental and Human Trends Worth Celebrating This Earth Day

Peak population, expanding forests, more abundant resources, falling air pollution, and plenty of farmland

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2019 12:05 PM

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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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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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Extinction

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.

Ronald Bailey | 10.31.2018 4:15 PM

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The End of Doom

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.

Ronald Bailey | 6.27.2018 1:20 PM

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The End of Doom

The Coming Century of Environmental Renewal

A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.

Ronald Bailey | 4.23.2018 4:29 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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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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Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling, Founder of the Invaluable GapMinder, Has Died

'Facts don't come naturally. Drama and opinions do.'

Ronald Bailey | 2.7.2017 3:31 PM

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Hans Rosling

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 | 12.21.2016 1:00 PM

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Ronald Bailey

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.

Ronald Bailey | 7.29.2016 12:31 PM

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Future

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.

Justin Monticello, Zach Weissmueller, and Joshua Swain | 5.18.2016 10:42 AM

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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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Extinction

One-Fifth of Earth's Plants Threatened with Extinction

Recent trends on population, farmland, deforestation, and urbanization are cause for optimism.

Ronald Bailey | 5.10.2016 4:31 PM

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Earth day

Happy Earth Day: A Reprise of Failed Doom

A trip down memory lane of failed Earth Day predictions past.

Ronald Bailey | 4.22.2016 3:01 PM

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The End of Doom

Ronald Bailey at Virginia Festival of the Book—Tomorrow March 18

Talking about "environmental thought" with Jedediah Purdy and Jonathan Cannon

Ronald Bailey | 3.17.2016 6:31 PM

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Bill Gates

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."

Ronald Bailey | 2.23.2016 12:40 PM

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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

The End of Doom Is the Anti-Doomsaying Book for This Decade

So says Purdue University President Mitch Daniels in the Wall Street Journal

Ronald Bailey | 12.21.2015 2:37 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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The End of Doom

Ronald Bailey at the House of Lords on The End of Doom

The Global Warming Policy Foundation interviews me about the book too.

Ronald Bailey | 12.9.2015 12:10 PM

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The End of Doom

The End of Doom: 'One of the year's best science books,' says Wall Street Journal

Makes a wonderful Christmas gift.

Ronald Bailey | 11.23.2015 1:21 PM

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The End of Doom

Sierra Club Reviews The End of Doom

And the reviewer doesn't entirely hate it.

Ronald Bailey | 10.21.2015 11:03 AM

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The End of Doom

Secret? Global Poverty Has Been Falling—The End of Doom

New York Times columnist reveals today the "secret" that my new book documents.

Ronald Bailey | 10.2.2015 2:02 PM

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The End of Doom

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.

Ronald Bailey | 9.11.2015 12:16 PM

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Deforestation

Global Deforestation Rate Has Fallen by Half Says New Report

And there are far more trees than researchers previously thought - more than 3 trillion

Ronald Bailey | 9.9.2015 2:03 PM

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The End of Doom

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

Ronald Bailey | 8.28.2015 4:11 PM

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Ronald Bailey

"Ignore Dire Warnings," the New York Post reviews The End of Doom

Remember the great penis scare of the 1990s?

Ronald Bailey | 8.20.2015 10:33 AM

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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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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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The End of Doom

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 | 7.21.2015 10:06 AM

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Cato

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

Ronald Bailey | 7.20.2015 4:15 PM

The End of Doom

Welcome to The End of Doom Page!

Reason Staff | 7.10.2015 2:09 PM

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