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- Was climate change alarmism always about fears of overpopulation? Tue, 12 Feb 19, 5:00amby Pierre Desrochers and Joanna Szurmak [Note: The following text is adapted from the authors’ recently published book Population Bombed! Exploding the Link Between Overpopulation and Climate Change in which the validity...
- Monbiot: wrong again – 'Peak Oil' this time Wed, 4 Jul 12, 2:59amUntil recently George "Reverse-Cassandra" Monbiot was very, very worried about Peak Oil. Here's what he wrote in 2007: The disasters invoked by the peaking of global oil supplies can be avoided only with a “crash progamme”...
- The Simon-Erlich Wager at Seven Billion People Wed, 25 Jan 12, 10:00pmGuest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Erlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth and resource...
- Lucky Economists, Unlucky Scientists? Fri, 14 Jan 11, 10:57pmFor decades, economists (Cornucopians or optimists) have been at odds with natural scientists (Malthusians or pessimists) when it comes to the scarcity of natural resources...