Tag: neo-Malthusianism
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MEC: Recap of My Concerns
We are about to turn specific passages from Everything Must Change by Brian McLaren, but before we go there, I want to recap my central observations and clarify my perception of some key issues. My primary concern over the last eight posts has been McLaren’s claim that we live with a “suicide machine.” He generally…
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MEC: Exhausting Scarce Resources?
I've made the case that Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. It fails to see the trajectory society has been moving. But there is another way this parochialism is at work. It merely projects the present into the future. It fails to sufficiently consider future adaptations in human behavior and technology.…
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Prices are Falling
One of the persistent claims by those with a neo-Malthusian sustainable growth perspective is that we are exhausting the world's resources. Commodity prices factor in not only present supply and demand but supply and demand for the foreseeable future. Therefore if supply is declining relative to demand, we will see rising prices. Here is a…
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Living Simply in Abundance (14)
“Material abundance is (A) rapidly depleting our resources and (B) destroying our environment.” This has become the refrain of a new generation of neo-Malthusian environmentalists in our day. It’s widespread in Mainline (National Council of Churches denominations) and is the dominant viewpoint among influential emerging church notables (Brian McLaren’s “Everything Must Change” is a prime…
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Clear-Eyed Optimists
Wall Street Journal: Clear-Eyed Optimists The world is getting better, though no one likes to hear it. ………. I'm old enough to recall the days in the late 1960s when people wore those trendy buttons that read: "Stop the Planet I Want to Get Off." And I will never forget that era's "educational" films of…