Comments on: In Defense of People: Julian Simon, “The Ultimate Resource Is Mankind”

By: Mark Pennington: Green Leviathan or the Minimal State? - TECHNOLOGY-POLICY-ECONOMY-ART-MOVIE – TECHNOLOGY-POLICY-ECONOMY-ART-MOVIE

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:23:33 +0000

[...] with excerpts from good books on environmental and appetite issues (see final week’s posts here), next is an mention from Mark Pennington’s shining new book Robust Political Economy. [...]

By: Carbon Credit Project | Reduce Co2 Emissions

Carbon Credit Project | Reduce Co2 Emissions — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:18:42 +0000

[...] with excerpts from great books on environmental and energy issues (see last week’s posts here), below is an excerpt from Mark Pennington’s brilliant new book Robust Political Economy. [...]

By: Mark Pennington: Green Leviathan or the Minimal State?

Mark Pennington: Green Leviathan or the Minimal State? — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:40:57 +0000

[...] with excerpts from great books on environmental and energy issues (see last week’s posts here), below is an excerpt from Mark Pennington’s brilliant new book Robust Political Economy. [...]

By: ‘Climate change’ hysteria and energy rationing is an assault on people, the ultimate resource | JunkScience.com

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:00:10 +0000

[...] In Defense of People: Julian Simon, “The Ultimate Resource Is Mankind” – When I began to work on population studies, I aimed to help the world contain its “exploding” population, which I believed to be one of the two main threats to humankind (war being the other)…. [...]

By: Lawrie Ayres

Lawrie Ayres — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:12:21 +0000

The beauty of real nature is that it is self moderating. Too many trees, some die. Too many gazelles, more lions and so on. I’m convinced humans react in the same way. People migrate voluntarily to better countries just as the wildebeast migrate after new grass. If and when the world population reaches capacity it will become self regulating, deaths through starvation or disease or fewer children because of better survival rates as in Europe and the West generally. US and Australian population growth is mainly through immigration.

The last thing humans need is some sort of uber government elite telling them how many kids they can have. Government is there to support them in their choice not to choose for them.

It’s a very positive article.