We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world’s population for the first time. It was 60 per cent when I was born.
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That is to say: our population and economy would grow, but we’d learn how to reduce what we take from the planet. And so it has proved. An MIT scientist, Andrew McAfee, recently documented this in a book called More from Less, showing how some nations are beginning to use less stuff: less metal, less water, less land. Not just in proportion to productivity: less stuff overall.
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A modern irony is that many green policies advocated now would actually reverse the trend towards using less stuff.
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Technology has put us on a path to a cleaner, greener planet. We don’t need to veer off in a new direction. If we do, we risk retarding progress.
Mr Worstall should read and learn : Go Greenie Woke, go stony broke
Tim Worstall
I have read the Ridley piece. At which point a small story. Over the weekend I emailed Matt. I needed to check something I knew he’d written, just to be able to refer to where he had for a piece of work I’m doing. It was about how the wilder predictions simply cannot be true. Because we’ve already done stuff to head them off at the pass. Because he’s helpful etc he told me where he had. And added the point that as he’d got the point from me……
Sure, I do still learn things by reading Ridley but it’s not entirely a one way traffic…..
But that’s just pre-professional era Bugry Union, innit?
As with many charity names, it’s not immediately obvious whether they are for it or against it.
Fueling the bushland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNRB8SQbVvE
Australia – The Perfect Firestorm – Created By Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxHcBDp4J84
“You don’t need to declare interests, everyone trusts politicians”
Good article by Matt Ridley
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news
Mr Worstall should read and learn : Go Greenie Woke, go stony broke
I have read the Ridley piece. At which point a small story. Over the weekend I emailed Matt. I needed to check something I knew he’d written, just to be able to refer to where he had for a piece of work I’m doing. It was about how the wilder predictions simply cannot be true. Because we’ve already done stuff to head them off at the pass. Because he’s helpful etc he told me where he had. And added the point that as he’d got the point from me……
Sure, I do still learn things by reading Ridley but it’s not entirely a one way traffic…..