@PaulREhrlich
Note the deployment of the Fauci Clause: If you don’t agree with me you don’t believe in science. Your peers John Holdren and John Harte both lost money on your bet. The facts are clear: As long as human beings are free to innovate, resources will grow much faster than population
@AlecStapp
Imagine where we would be today with clean green reliable nuclear if it had the support we've given to solar and wind. Putin would be harmless to Europe.
@DeAngelisCorey
No mystery here. Idaho is a one party state. It’s conservative republicans vs. progressive republicans. The teachers union loves the progressives who oppose parental rights in public education. Look deeper to see if they endorse any republicans in favor of choice. I’ll bet zero
@CHSommers
@AyoSekai
If you can't legally cut or prescribe, you're not a doctor, you're just a scholar who has read books and taken tests. Until to take responsibility for your words, no one will take you seriously either. Doctors have liability, professors have tenure.
@scienceisstrat1
@erikbryn
There’s been an extraordinary increase in abundance in India. Especially if you look at the time it takes to earn the money to buy food. Almost a 90% drop since 1960.
@pmarca
@bhorowitz
If colleges had been as innovative as TVs since 1997, a four-year degree would cost $150 today. Time for the AI entrepreneurs to step in the game.
Some simple math
Pick a random person on Earth in he 1920s
That person had a 0.01% chance of dying due to an extreme weather or climate event
Now 2020, do the same
That person had a 0.00025% chance of dying due to an extreme weather or climate event
Risk reduced by 99.75%
@ShellenbergerMD
One word: Keystone.
On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to revoke the permit that was granted to TC Energy Corporation for the Keystone XL Pipeline (Phase 4). On June 9, 2021, TC Energy abandoned plans for the Keystone XL Pipeline.
@CHSommers
Lewis and Clark Law School joins Evergreen State as a Do-Not-Hire Institution. The Alumni should be furious. The value of their law degree has lost 90% of its value.
@saifedean
We buy things primary based on their value to us today, Even though something might be a lower price tomorrow, we miss out on the value it would provide us today if we delay purchasing. Would you not have lunch today if you thought food was going to be cheaper tomorrow?
@bill_easterly
@OurWorldInData
Since 1980 global population has increased by 75.8 percent while the average price of 50 basic commodities has decreased by 75.2 percent. See:
@ziontree
@Marian_L_Tupy
If you had magic power why not increase the resources on the planet? There is in fact a magic power. It's called the freedom to innovate.
@AdamThierer
Recall that he tried to blow up people who were doing research on saving infants with life-threatening problems. All because there are too many people.
@profstonge
“First inflation wasn't real. Then it was transitory. Then it was a good thing. Now it's your fault.” Like the stages of grief. The stages of central bank fiating.
@jmhorp
If wages are 150 times higher and prices are 30 times higher then you get 5 for the time price of one. Time prices have fallen 80% or more since 1913. Here’s a chart with time prices for food items form 1919 to 2019:
@EfosaOjomo
People must begin trusting one another. Markets create the environment for this to happen. Although not perfect, people learn to serve one another and build trusting relationships in markets. You don't have to be rich to be worthy of trust. Trust is a key to prosperity.
@PaulREhrlich
Sorry Paul, you got everything backwards. Everything is becoming more abundant, except human beings. Please take a look at what the facts are telling us about the tremendous growth of knowledge.
@NewWorldHominin
@PresMacLatchy
Must terminate Rambukkana, Pimlott, and Joel. Shut down GVS Program. Adopt University of Chicago Statement. Then promise alumni to stop destroying the WLU brand. Otherwise Canadians must stop all donations.
@paulg
Atoms become resources when you add knowledge to them, and there is no limit to the discovery of valuable new knowledge. We live on an infinitely bountiful planet.
@mwickens
@mattyglesias
Since 1980, every one percent increase in population corresponded to an 8 percent increase in global basic commodity abundance:
@jasoncrawford
Might want to look at an update on the Simon-Ehrlich bet. Expanded to 50 items over the last 40 years. Data indicates that the planet has become 608 percent more abundant: