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The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment.

The CO2 fertilization effect is both real and substantial in both beneficial and harmful ways. 

The poor should stay poor, to allow more for us. Hence the concept of "never-to-be-developed countries"

“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”

An optimistic view of future climate has a strong basis in settled science (CO2 fertilization, modest primary warming), just as climate pessimistic has a more speculative basis (as in debated feedback effects to elevate the...

Former NSW Premier Bob Carr thinks even thought Paul Ehrlich was wrong about global starvation and resource depletion, we should have listened to him.

Malthus, Ehrlich and The Club of Rome might have gotten everything wrong, but Waikato Professor Michael Cameron thinks we need to consider their work, and consider imposing curbs on population growth, if we want to prevent...

Guest “implied facepalm” by David Middleton Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can graspJanuary 13, 2021 12.00am Anyone with even a passing interest in…

What’s Natural column Guest post by Jim Steele, published in the Pacifica Tribune Wednesday December 18, 2019 Victims if 1876 Famine in India When I graduated high school in 1968 there were rampant predictions of environmental...

Address to the Alumni of Warrane College, University of New South Wales Academic Dinner, September 2017 Dr Howard Thomas Brady No matter our age we are all adapting to circumstance...

There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before population peaks at 10 billion...

Guest essay by Geoff Chambers “Ten Billion” by Stephen Emmott – a 120-page paperback Ehrlich-style Doomfest – is due out in the next few days, published by Vintage in the USA and Penguin in the UK...

While the alarmists wail over 400PPM of CO2, and push doom and gloom crop failure scenarios, in the real world where people risk money and livelihood, the news is far, far, better...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start by getting the jargon out of the way. The “NPP” is the “net primary productivity”. It is how many total tonnes of new plant matter are produced around the...

Josh writes: “All the text Paul Ehrlich is saying comes from his recent tweets.“ And the Bishop says “it’s a hoot”. I wonder where he got the idea that its was “the greatest snowstorm on...