All Posts Tagged With: "Paul Ehrlich"

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

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 Mugging of an Environmental Skeptic

When I read Bjørn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist I felt a sense of déjà vu. As excellent as it is, what Lomborg has to say—that the world is not going to hell—has been said before. But it was ignored because it was said by a brilliant man, the late Julian Simon, who was considered politically [...]

1Jul2002 | James Peron | 1 comment | Continued

It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends in the Last 100 Years

It’s not for nothing that economics is tagged “the dismal science.” Part of that reputation traces to its realistic no-pie-in-the-sky nature, but another part goes to the ongoing influence of thinkers like Thomas Malthus, who saw population outracing food output; Karl Marx, who saw evil capital crushing the rising working class; and John Maynard Keynes, [...]

1Jan2002 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued

Ten Years After the Bet: The More Things Change. . .

Michael Mallinger is a research associate at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The late Julian Simon’s victory in his famous bet with Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich was a defining moment in the free-market movement’s victory over Malthusianism. In 1980 Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose five commodities that would become more expensive over the [...]

1Nov2001 | Michael D. Mallinger | 0 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

Billions for a Misconception

The children of David Packard, the late Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded the Hewlett-Packard Company, have a monumental job on their hands. Since their father’s death in 1996, they have been charged with fulfilling his most passionate desire: to spend billions of the family foundation’s dollars on behalf of world population control. If Mr. Packard [...]

1Jul1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

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