by Henry Oliner | Sep 25, 2019 | Environmental, Politics, Progressivism
From National Review, Kevin Williams’ China’s Population Problem: Governments always operate in ignorance, and authoritarian governments suffer from this more than the governments of liberal societies. That is because in liberal societies, the spontaneous...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 31, 2016 | Economics
Kevin Williamson at National Review addresses the zero sum thinking in The New New Malthusians: excerpt: For well over a century after Malthus’s death, variations on his prophecy — that growing human populations would eventually overwhelm the world’s natural...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 4, 2015 | Economics
from Robert Tracinski in The Federalist, What the New York Times Didn’t Learn from Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb Fizzle excerpts: But the story is way more interesting than that. In 1980, Simon and Ehrlich made afamous bet about the future prices of commodities. If...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 1, 2011 | Economics, Global Warming
One of the reasons I am skeptical of global warming/ climate change apocalyptic scenarios is that throughout history such predictions have almost always proven wrong. Thomas Malthus (1766- 1834) was actually correct when he suggested that population growth would be...
