Putting Ehrlich’s bad ideas in perspective
Charles Cooke of National Review Online assesses the negative impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential voices on the political left. The man’s views inspired multiple bad ideas…
social theory regarding the natural relationship between population growth and food supply
Charles Cooke of National Review Online assesses the negative impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential voices on the political left. The man’s views inspired multiple bad ideas…
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde explores a key issue for mankind’s future. For anyone tempted to try to predict humanity’s future, Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb is a cautionary tale. Feeding on the…
Pres. Joe Biden, Gov. Roy Cooper, and other leaders and bureaucrats would force wrenching changes to how people power their homes, drive, eat, and more in order to stave off…
Noah Rothman writes for National Review Online about the poor arguments emerging from those who advocate population control. Today, the movement dedicated to limiting the growth of the human species…
Congress is hard at work raising your taxes and increasing inflation, by preparing to vote on a massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. The obvious pork is included as well.…
Currently, North Carolina’s middle school health standards require educators to address various environmental problems. Likewise, environmentalism is a central component of state science standards for middle and high school students.…
In 1798, British economist Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population. In it, Malthus hypothesized that as the population grew, earth’s resources would become increasingly scarce, leading to the…
Michael Shellenberger posted an insightful piece today at Quillette: Democratic Presidential candidates and the New York Times rightly condemned the use of inflammatory words like “invasion” … to describe … people coming…
Charles Cooke of National Review Online assesses President Obama’s latest comments about global warming. President Obama suggested rather dramatically that unchecked “climate change” would mean “submerged countries, abandoned cities, and…
View in your browser. 1. Are supplies of "finite" natural resources really fixed? Pick your natural resource: oil, land, copper, coal, you name it. At one time or another, it…
That’s the title of a fantastic post by Bjørn Lomborg taking to task the Club of Rome’s 1972 doomsday forecast, The Limits to Growth: We were doomed, because too many…
The views of James Lee, the eco-progressive that took his ideology to the barricades at the Discovery Channel yesterday–and then gave his life for the cause–are apparently well grounded in…