


The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

Gale Pooley’s New Book Superabundance Out Now

Elon Musk Gets an A in Econ. Janet Yellen Gets a D-

What 1973’s Soylent Green Accurately Predicted about 2022

The Changing Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner

Discovery Research Fellow Gale Pooley: Are We Doomed to Run Out of Resources?

The Simon Abundance Index
Are we running out of resources? That’s been a hotly debated question since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s book The Population Bomb in 1968. The Stanford University biologist warned that population growth would result in the exhaustion of resources and a global catastrophe. University of Maryland economist and Cato Institute’s Senior Fellow Julian Simon, in contrast, argued that humans would Read More ›

The Bill Walton Show: “Half Earth for Species Protection” with Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington
The population of humans has almost tripled since 1950, and the impact on other species has been profound. Humans have absorbed vast amounts of habitat for living space and farmland, leading to the extinction of hundreds of species and threats to countless others. Ron Maxwell and Skipper Darlington join Bill Walton to talk about a radical but oddly simple and Read More ›
Will More Washington Roads Take Their Toll On Drivers
This article, published by Seattle PI, quotes Matt Rosenberg of Discovery Institute: Matt Rosenberg, a senior fellow at Cascadia Center of the Discovery Institute, recently called for managing peak-hour congestion in the central Puget Sound area “by bravely establishing – and soon – a seamless regional system of variably-priced, automated, and ultimately corridor-length tolling on highways and major state routes.” The rest of the Read More ›