A Better World is Here ... so says Bjorn Lomborg and a 21 of the worlds top economists using 150 years of data. And they are right ... along every measurable dimension, the world is a better place than 150 years ago. Notice they say, better not perfect. Enormous work yet to be done ... For centuries, optimists and pessimists have argued over the state of the world. Pessimists see a world where more people means less food, where rising demand for resources means depletion and war, and, in recent decades, where boosting production capacity means more pollution and global warming. One of the current generation of pessimists’ sacred texts, The Limits to Growth, influences the environmental movement to this day. The optimists, by contrast, cheerfully claim that everything – human health, living standards, environmental quality, and so on – is getting better. Their opponents think of them as “cornucopian” economists, placing their faith in the market to fix any and all problems. project-syndicate.org/commentary/on-the-declining-costs-of-global-problems-by-bj-rn-lomborg
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 03:41:03 +0000
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