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The West has never been too comfortable with India’s rise. Indeed, at independence, nobody expected India to survive as a democracy.

Wow. Here's another inexcusable case of bad science journalism - one that clearly has political motives. This is the lede from a story by Amanda Carpenter in this morning's Washington Times: President Obama's top science adviser has toyed with extreme measures of population control, even suggesting in one book how to make it more publicly acceptable for the government to spike drinking water in order to sterilize people.

For Star subscribers: Women are having fewer children around the world, and a sharp drop happened in Arizona after the 2008 economic crash. Repealing the abortion ban may help, but

The energy transition requires public support, but activists exaggerating the threat and downplaying the costs threaten that support.

If you're looking for further evidence that the world is recovering from the disruptions of pandemic policy, the Simon Abundance Index provides just that.…

Back in April 1970, The Beatles broke up, and they started Earth Day conveniently on Vladimir Lenin's birthday. After all, what a better way to celebrate your hatred of capitalism than to schedule your big festival on commie #1's birthday? Anyway, I am not sure how Lenin would feel about all the predictions about the Earth that were posted

To mark Earth Day, 60 Minutes looks back on our reporting on climate change and the environment over the years.

Last year, 60 Minutes reported that scientists were sounding an alarm that we were living in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. Biologist Paul Ehrlich told Scott Pelley that humans would need “five more Earths” to maintain our current way of life. Source

Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich made a bet in 1980 about the future value of metal resources.

If you're looking for further evidence that the world is recovering from the disruptions of pandemic policy, the Simon Abundance Index provides just that.…