More Bad Neo-Malthusian Behavior (Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick joins the...
[Editor note: This November 29, 2011, post is updated in light of the admission yesterday by climate activist Peter Gleick that he is the source of the stolen Heartland Institute documents. Gleick's...
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‘Peak Rock’: The ONION Goes Neo-Malthusian (Fixity/depletion curse expands)
“We are on a collision course to a world without rocks. Only take as many rocks as you absolutely need.” - Dr. Victoria Merrill, author, No Stone Unturned: Methods For Modern Rock Conservation...
View ArticleHalloween: Neo-Malthusian Day
“We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children. It has to collapse, unless adults stand up and say, ‘This is a Ponzi scheme. We have not generated real...
View ArticleBastiat on Malthus: Wisdom from 1850 for Optimism Today
“If we face the facts courageously, we shall see that a large area has been left open for the exercise of our initiative.” The holiday season is not only a time to count our blessings, but also to...
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Resurrecting ‘Limits to Growth’: Dead Men Walking
“Many of the writers about ‘peak oil’ have moved on to ‘peak everything’ (Richard Heinberg) and ‘peak food’ (Paul Roberts). They apply the same flawed model that treats resources as static and ignores...
View Article‘Fear Not: The Malthusians Are Wrong’ (2000 Op-Ed for Today)
Editor note: This op-ed, published on April 21, 2000, in the Houston Chronicle, can be revisited to see how the arguments have held up for today. One unanticipated development was the BP Horizon oil...
View ArticleMalthusianism circa 1948 (running out of oil, etc.)
“We build into our automobiles more power and greater gas consumption than we need. We use the press and radio to push the sales of more cars. We drive them hundreds of millions of miles a year in...
View ArticleHalloween: Neo-Malthusian Day
“We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children. It has to collapse, unless adults stand up and say, ‘This is a Ponzi scheme. We have not generated real...
View ArticleClimate Alarmism and Malthusianism (rebuttal to Taylor)
“The pseudo-intellectual right loves to compare climate concern and action with Malthusianism. I’ve never quite understood what the heck these things have in common.” (Jerry Taylor, October 13, 2019)...
View ArticleMcKibben goes McKibben on COVID-19 (Malthusians get ‘dizzy’ about the human...
” … for me, one frustration of the coronavirus pandemic is that it’s temporarily interrupting the movement-building that is necessary to beat the fossil-fuel industry.” (McKibben, below)Some of us...
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