Malthusian tendencies here.
A very important paper in the ongoing debate between the pessimistic followers of Malthus and the optimistic non-zero-sum game economists:https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/julian-simon-was-right-half-century-population-growth …
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What about CO2 emissions?
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Yup. Julian Simon was right. Humans are the ultimate resource.
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sustainability of an ecosystem cannot be translated into the logic of the current market system by looking at prizes. this approach completely ignores the external costs that are not measured by those prices. this is methodological blindness that leads to insufficient conclusions
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That sure is reassuring. Futures markets being so stable & easy to predict & all...
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also futures tend to be affected (or even cause) market failures because in certain cases the market is (by design) not able to integrate all information. therefor also futures are limited to the logic of the market. they cannot replace ecology, ethics or philosophy (etc).
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Every single organism, growing beyond the carrying capacity of its environment, can write a similar triumphant paper. "Look how rapidly we've grown! Take that, naysayers!" Then the famine hits.
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only if you mean by "left leaning" a libertarian thinktank which is connected to koch industries and praises global capitalism...
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We have dallied too long at the banquet of natural resources, only to discover that the only way out is past the cashier. - Reg Morrison
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Lol, you do know that people *chose* to move from the farms into the cities 200 years ago because there was just much more opportunity? And that not every one can own farmland (that's why always a minority actually owned it and the firstborn inherited it)?
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