Resources Are More Abundant Than Ever, and People Are the Reason
Our research into the relative abundance of resources began when we looked at updating the famous wager between the cornucopian University of Maryland economist Julian Simon (1932–1998) and three neo-Malthusian scholars: the Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich; the University of California, Berkeley ecologist John Harte; and the University of California, Berkeley scientist and future director of President Barack Obama’s White House Office of Science and Technology John P. Holdren.[1] The Ehrlich group bet $200 each on five metals: chrome, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten. Then th...
Source: cato-unbound.org
