Tag Archives: neomalthusians

Can science prevent the great global food crisis?

Previous agricultural revolutions have saved us from starvation – and we need another one now, says Michael Hanlon. Continue reading

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Mark P. Mills: The Next Great Growth Cycle

Today’s techno-pessimists say technology and America have plateaued. Continue reading

Junk Science Week: 2052? More like 2084

Last October, at a conference in Ottawa, systems-management guru Dennis Meadows declared from the podium that it was already “too late for sustainable development.” Continue reading

Ottawa axes ocean pollution monitoring program

Much as it comes as a shock to them, greenie playtime is over. You can only scream “crisis” and “humans are evil” so long before said humans get tired of paying you to act against their interests. Continue reading

Bryan Walsh: Feeding the Planet Without Destroying It

Climate change is the environmental problem that obsesses us, the one that’s the focus of high-flying international summits and hardcore national politics. But it’s not the only environmental problem — and it’s not even the biggest one.

No Bryan, climate change is not even a problem at all – at least not in the real world. The world’s major problem is really the amalgam of environmentalism, greenie obstructionists and hatred of humanity. The wannabe “planet savers” view humanity as a disease afflicting their pagan goddess. Continue reading

Robert Zubrin: China’s population-control holocaust

The bloody history of ‘Limits to Growth’ Continue reading

Ben Pile: The Royal Society Takes Another Step Away from Science

So when did inequality, poverty, reproductive rights, and the issue of what levels of material wealth people should be entitled to become matters of ‘science’? (It’s a rhetorical question). Continue reading