The Improving State of the World

MEC: Exhausting Scarce Resources?

Mar 26, 2008

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in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Trends: Economic

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.…

MEC: The Cycle of Prosperity

Mar 25, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economic Development, Economics, Health and Medicine, Series: Must Everything Change?, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Food & Water), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Technology (Transportation & Distribution)

We have seen that there has been a sharp rise in prosperity as measured by health and longevity and in terms of income. All this has come in an era when the world population has grown more than 600%. Economist Robert Fogel attributes this to technophysio evolution. Indur M. Goklany, in his recent book The…

Environment

Feb 20, 2008

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mwkruse

in Economics, Environment, Series: Social Indicators 2007, Technology (Energy)

SOCIAL INDICATORS 2007 There is a long history of environmentalism in American life. Yellowstone National Park was created in 1872. The Audubon Society, formed in 1905, was one of the earliest environmental groups. President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) was probably the first "environmental president" with his conservationist policies. More modern environmental groups can be traced to…

A world full of good news

May 14, 2007

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economic Development, Education, Generations, Great Divergence, Poverty, Race, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Boston.com: A world full of good news Malthus wrote just before the turn of the 19th century, when the Earth was home to some 980 million human beings. The global population today is about 6.5 billion, a sevenfold increase. If the alarmists are right, our lives should be far more impoverished, degraded, and pitiful than…

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MEC: Exhausting Scarce Resources?

MEC: The Cycle of Prosperity

Environment

A world full of good news