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#EarthDay Why do environmentalists get away with such wildly inaccurate doomsday prophecies?
24 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophets
Source: Betting on the Planet – NYTimes.com.
In 1922 Princeton banned students from owning automobiles
07 Apr 2016 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, technological progress Tags: doomsday prophets, good old days
How insightful was The Population Bomb
14 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth miracles, population economics, resource economics, technological progress Tags: cranks, doomsday prophets
Paul Ehrlich: Australia will become a “third world country” if we don’t abandon Mining
03 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: doomsday prophets, Paul Ehrlich
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Serial failed futurist Paul Ehrlich has warned that Australia will become a third world country, if we Australians don’t abandon one of our main sources of national income.
According to The Guardian;
Q&A: mining will turn Australia into a third-world country, says ecologist Paul Ehrlich
Ehrlich warns ‘you are destroying your life support systems here’ and says his prediction of a 90% chance civilisation will collapse in 50 years is based on ‘gut feeling’
Australia is “working to become a third-world country” through its economic dependence on mining natural resources for export and reliance on coalmining, according to doomsday ecologist Paul Ehrlich.
Ehrlich made the prediction on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night, after dismissing the views of other panellists on the question of whether Australia was overpopulated as “mostly nonsense, unfortunately,” and before praising the economic theories of electronics retailer Dick…
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How is the environment going under the ravages of 21st century capitalism
22 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - USA Tags: doomsday prophecies, doomsday prophets, environmental law, environmental protection, environmental regulation, free market environmentalism, green scaremongering, tear pollution, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, water pollution
U.S. population has grown since 1980, yet pollution rates either haven't moved or are falling. buff.ly/1ILu7RM http://t.co/PXriaKlsZO—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) August 14, 2015
How humans cause mass extinctions?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: cranks, doomsday prophets, endangered species, Paul Ehrlich
HT: MasterResource
Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
24 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, health economics Tags: agricultural economics, bees, doomsday prophets, environmental scare tactics, environmental scares
Thomas Macaulay (1830) on the green movement
19 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of media and culture, environmental economics, environmentalism, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: doomsday prophecies, doomsday prophets, Leftover Left, Thomas Macaulay
“…we see nothing but improvement behind us [yet] expect nothing but deterioration before us” buff.ly/1HscRBL http://t.co/cKILhkKWvr—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 30, 2015
How are Paul Ehrlich’s food riots going?
14 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: agricultural economics, doomsday prophets, Paul Ehrlich, The Great Escape
The world uses 68% less land to produce the same amount of food compared to 50 years ago: bit.ly/1FtkmTE http://t.co/zi4RnKnJQd—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 03, 2015
Handy hints for the Antiscience Left
16 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: anti-intellectualism, antiscience left, climate alarmists, conjecture and refutation, doomsday prophets, logical fallacies, philosophy of science, precautionary principle, propaganda
Interesting, non-obvious stuff here. "Inoculating against science denial" theconversation.com/inoculating-ag… http://t.co/U719oys3Pf—
(@pourmecoffee) May 16, 2015
The crazy mixed up priorities of climate alarmists-in-chief
12 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophets, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, Twitter left
Leaving the Left Exposed. James Hansen: dld.bz/dBnyq http://t.co/ZQsKSJxlr1—
The Left, Exposed (@leftexposed) April 23, 2015
When will Paul Ehrlich’s food riots be starting?
05 May 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, population economics, resource economics Tags: agricultural economics, doomsday prophets, ecological economics, Paul Ehrlich, population bomb, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
"Although the size and wealth of the human population has shot up…"—Jesse H. Ausubel. buff.ly/1Gz5vb8 http://t.co/ZvnnhV9aXH—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) April 30, 2015
Despite a recent uptick, food prices have been declining for over a century, says @chellivia: j.mp/1Evos3r http://t.co/perdLhFods—
Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 24, 2015
Even taking population growth into account, food production per person is actually increasing: j.mp/1Qo0fPt http://t.co/VH0NieLMOX—
Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) April 23, 2015
Climate experts @PaulREhrlich says we all died during the 1980s http://t.co/C7k1Qc4B4O—
Steve Goddard (@SteveSGoddard) May 14, 2015
Whatever happened to the population bomb that so troubled the environmentalist doomsday prophets?
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: activists, cranks, doomsday prophets, population bomb, the economics of fertility
The world is making less people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fer… | http://t.co/FlgwlrkUJO—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsAndMaps) April 04, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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