Germany’s farmers are rising in protest akin to the populist truckers’ movement, writes Tom Slater in Spiked. Provoked by government plans to increase farm-related taxes and mire farming in even more green-driven red tape, 30,000 people with 5,000 tractors have camped out peacefully in Berlin. Amidst deeper concerns that government policy is pushing farming itself towards extinction, people are saying, “We’ve had enough!”
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.
