History shows that this type of commanding collectivisation often ends in tears – witness the gulags and starvation of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the deliberate famines in Mao’s China, and not…
Tag: Neo-Malthusianism
‘Ever-wrong Ehrlich’s’ Greatest Hits (er, misses)
His famous 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” changed the world. He famously predicted that human “overpopulation” would soon outstrip food supplies, leading to catastrophic famines, and societal collapse. He predicted that…
The Jevons Paradox Explains Why Net Zero is an Exercise in Futility
In the same way that Malthusians were wrong about the constraints on food production, so they’ll prove to be wrong about both the future demand and supply of electricity.