![]() ![]() ![]() Just maybe the doomslayers are well grounded with their trust in private property rights and the market process, including “creative destruction” where the better can replace the good. Rome, etc. proclaimed the end was in sight. Minerals ever since the 1960s and 1970s when Paul Ehrlich, The Club of In the Julian Simon camp have been jumping in regard to a variety of Published in 1798–and not hitting the ground. The optimists have been jumping off buildings ever since Robert Thomas Malthus’s An Essay on Population was Īre free-market optimists the dumb ones who jump off tall buildings and report that everything is fine, even breezy, on the way down? Or are those who fear, rant, and make this analogy bungee-jumping with reality? “Is there any more single-minded, simple pleasure than viewing with alarm? At times it is even better than sex.” (Kenneth Boulding (1970), p. We have not generated real wealth, and we are destroying a livable climate.’” (Joe Romm, quoted in Thomas Friedman, Is the Inflection Point Near?, New York Times, March 7, 2009) It has to collapse, unless adults stand up and say, ‘This is a Ponzi scheme. “We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children. ![]()
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