The good news about the environment rarely makes the headlines. Despite the lamentations of environmental extremists like “Extinction Rebellion,” the science tells a very different story. Matt Ridley, writing in The Spectator UK, argues that we have rarely been in better shape and that environmental and technological trends are pointing in the right direction.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
