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View from space of orbiting mother earth; view of China, South East Asia, India

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
June 18, 2023

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
Cato Institute, Climate change, Creativity, Discovery Institute, Human exceptionalism, New York Times, Population growth, superabundance, Wired}

You Can’t Have Infinite Growth on a Finite Planet…or Can You?

_{Busting the myths of population growth and economic scarcity} _{Peter Biles

June 18, 2023

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Economics}

Wired recently came out with an interview with economics data analyst Gaya Herrington proclaiming the doom of humanity if we don’t “shift the paradigm” NOW. Herrington said, Very succinctly, we are at a now-or-never moment. What we do in the next five to 10 years will determine the welfare levels of humanity for the rest of the century. There are so many tipping points approaching, in terms of climate, in terms of biodiversity. So—change our current paradigm, or our welfare must decline. The Planet Can’t Sustain Rapid Growth Much Longer | WIRED Population alarmism is not a new chipmunk at the park. It’s been burrowing its nose into the popular imagination for decades now. But is the hype merited? Are we really Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
May 11, 2023

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
Cato Institute, Climate change, Discovery Institute, Doomsday, economics, Human exceptionalism, Population growth, Scarcity, superabundance, Wesley J. Smith}

Gale Pooley on the Humanize Podcast

_{Are we really living on a dying planet?} _{News

May 11, 2023

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Economics}

Are we living on a dying planet? Are the doomsday prophecies of scarcity and widespread starvation due to population growth real? It’s the mainstream assumption, parroted by a number of influential voices. But not everything has taken the bait. Dr. Gale L. Pooley, senior fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty and co-author of the groundbreaking 2022 book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing, talked with Wesley J. Smith on the Humanize podcast on his work in economics and the ideas behind the book. Pooley co-wrote Superabundance with Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute. Smith and Pooley enjoyed a conversation pushing back against the widespread pessimism that is inherent in the scarcity narrative. Their Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
March 22, 2023

Categorized
Economics

Tagged
COSM 2022, economics, Gale Pooley, Marian L. Tupey, Population, Population growth, Scarcity, superabundance}

Countering Doom with Superabundance

_{Marian L. Tupy challenges the ideology of scarcity and promotes a refreshing new perspective on human innovation and population} _{News

March 22, 2023

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Economics}

The idea that the higher the human population the scarcer earth’s resources become is prevalent and mainstream. It is behind many of the doomsday alarmist calls for population control and influences much of economic theory and practice. But what if it’s wrong? Marian Tupy, co-author with Gale Pooley of the 2022 book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, offers a different account. The earth’s resources and innovation actually increase the more people there are on the planet. Bringing their innovation and creativity to the table, joined with earth’s resources, humans find ways to create “superabundance.” Marian Tupy spoke at the COSM Conference back in November 2022, and his lecture on his Read More ›

Crowd of people on the street. No recognizable faces

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
November 12, 2022

Categorized
Creativity, Economics

Tagged
COSM, superabundance}

Living in a Superabundant Age

_{Marian L. Tupy talks economics, falling birth rates, and human creativity at the COSM conference} _{Peter Biles

November 12, 2022

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Creativity, Economics}

On November 10th, Marian L. Tupy, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, spoke at this year’s COSM technology summit on behalf of his new book Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. Tupy co-wrote the book with Gale L. Pooley, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Their book takes a contrarian view of economics, scarcity, and the idea that an excessive human population diminishes the world’s resources. As the book’s title suggests, Tupy and Pooley take the opposite view: the world’s resources increase with population growth. During the COSM session, Tupy said, The caveman had the same natural resources at Read More ›