All Posts Tagged With: "overpopulation"

Population Control Nonsense

According to an American Dream article, “Al Gore, Agenda 21 and Population Control,” there are too many of us and it has a negative impact on the earth. Here’s what the United Nations Population Fund said in its annual State of the World Population Report for 2009, “Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate”: [...]

30Nov2011 | Walter E. Williams | 10 comments | Continued

Phony Food Crisis

Green icon Paul Ehrlich is widely known for his absurdly inaccurate projections regarding population and food. Rarely does a doomsday projection pass by without his embracing it. But most of his previous false claims are forgotten, or ignored, by the anti-capitalist coalition of today. After all, Ehrlich made those claims in 1968, and that was [...]

27Jun2010 | James Peron | 1 comment | Continued

From Economic Man to Economic System: Essays on Human Behavior and the Institutions of Capitalism

Harold Demsetz is among the ten most frequently cited economists in the world. What makes him worth reading is that he has made his mark not through virtuosity with empty formalism but rather by careful reasoning about fundamental questions and evidence. His latest book, From Economic Man to Economic System, continues that tradition. Demsetz considers [...]

23Sep2009 | Gary M. Galles | 2 comments | Continued

China’s One-Child Disaster

On February 28 a Reuters news story quoted Zhao Baige, the Chinese vice minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC), as indicating that the People’s Republic of China might change its “one-child policy.” That population-control policy limits the number of children Chinese couples are legally permitted to have. The default number is [...]

1Jun2008 | Wendy McElroy | 5 comments | Continued

Who’s Afraid of Prosperity?

Should we worry that the people of China, India, and other undeveloped countries are getting richer? Apparently so, according to the newspapers and the “experts” they quote. They don’t come right out and say that global prosperity is bad for us. Instead they say, as the New York Times recently said, “As development rolls across [...]

1Mar2008 | John Stossel | 0 comments | Continued

Global Warming and the Layman

Global warming is a divisive issue. People are either believers or skeptics, with each side viewing the other with apprehension. I’ve sided firmly with the skeptics, but lately I have had a nagging concern. Like most people, I am not an atmospheric scientist. I have no firsthand way to evaluate a scientifically based argument for [...]

1Jan2007 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | Continued

Remembering Julian Simon

Paul A. Cleveland is a professor of economics at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama. Erin Hagert is studying economics at The King’s College in New York. The late Julian Simon was not a household name, but he left an indelible mark nonetheless by demanding that environmentalists produce evidence for their doomsday predictions. Meanwhile, he produced his [...]

1Jan2007 | and and Paul A. Cleveland | 1 comment | Continued

The Real Population Problem

According to one department of the United Nations, some 400 million people have vanished. This wasn’t a spate of alien abductions. Instead the UN’s Population Division (UNPD) lowered its projected world population figure for 2050 by 403 million. This revision is from the projection of just two years ago. The agency now concedes that the [...]

1Sep2003 | James Peron | 2 comments | Continued

The Inhumanity of Population Control

Once again the Bush administration has come under fire for a decision that runs counter to conventional wisdom. Undeterred by widespread denunciations after opposing the Kyoto Protocol, it announced that funds appropriated by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would be cut back. With all the hue and cry about the dangers of [...]

1Aug2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | Continued

Food, Famine, and Free Trade

For decades population doomsayers have been predicting that massive famines were around the corner. Yet the United Nations Population Fund recently released its report “The State of the World’s Population 1999,” which says, “The world’s population is healthier from infancy through old age than it ever has been.”1 In a press release the United Nations [...]

1Apr2000 | James Peron | 0 comments | Continued

It Just Ain’t So!

Since ancient times people have been fretting about overcrowding the earth. In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus was already a latecomer to the alarmist message that mankind would breed itself into extinction. He was far from the first Malthusian. (It’s widely unappreciated that Malthus revised later editions of his Essay on the Principle of Population because [...]

1Nov1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

The Taiwan Model

Hugh Macaulay was Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University. He was a visiting professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei from August 1984 to July 1985. People at all times in the past and everywhere on earth today have wanted to enjoy economic growth and prosperity, as well as political and personal freedom. Unfortunately, [...]

1Jul1998 | Hugh Macaulay | 0 comments | Continued

Prosperity Without Pollution

Mr. Semmens is an economist with Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. I recently had the opportunity to participate in a World Future Society “debate” on whether we could reduce pollution without also reducing our economic well-being. Mainstream thinking asserts that we must sacrifice at least some of our prosperity in order to protect the environment. [...]

1Mar1996 | John Semmens | 2 comments | Continued

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