Tag: substitution

The World’s Resources Aren’t Running Out – Matt Ridley

May 5, 2014

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Environment, Human Progress, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Wall Street Journal: The World's Resources Aren't Running Out As I listen to conversations about our economic future, I hear two visions of the future being articulated, and I think both are inaccurate. First, there are what I call the Malthusians. They see a world of imminent collapse, limits to growth, exhausted resources, and such.…
Thoughts on the “The Limits to Panic”

Jun 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Business, Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Poverty

Forty-one years after the publication of the infamous Limits to Growth, Bjorn Lomborg offers this excellent piece, The Limits to Panic: … But the report's fundamental legacy remains: we have inherited a tendency to obsess over misguided remedies for largely trivial problems, while often ignoring big problems and sensible remedies. In the early 1970's, the…