> Dr. Zubrin points out that every person is given a mith to eat and a pair of hands to work and a brain to invent.
I haven't read that book, but if that's the content of the first chapter, I'm not sure how this relates to the very real environmental problems caused by economic growth?
You are making this into the question of "who is credible", and honestly "Merchants of despair" sounds like a pretty baseless ad hominem attack.
So if that book brought you new insights that make you consider it "the most important book of the 21st Century so far", what exactly are these insights?
Maybe someone should write a book and call it "Merchants of false hope, deception and magical thinking - brought to you by exponential economic growth".
I will repeat this because people want to launch off-topic attacks:
The more dense the population, the higher the per-capita GDP.
The more man-lives we have records of, the more technology we have access to. Inventions are directly correlated to man-lives (or man-years) we have records of.
Mathus' and the Club of Rome's claim that food production and wealth can not scale with the population is absurd. History shows us that that is not the case. As our population increased over thousands of years of recorded history, we did not become poorer or unable to feed ourselves. Instead, as our population went up, our per-capita GDP increased and the percentage of our income we spent to feed ourselves decreased.
Please, prove me wrong. Read the first chapter of Merchants of Despair and prove Dr. Zubrin wrong.
I haven't read that book, but if that's the content of the first chapter, I'm not sure how this relates to the very real environmental problems caused by economic growth?
You are making this into the question of "who is credible", and honestly "Merchants of despair" sounds like a pretty baseless ad hominem attack.
So if that book brought you new insights that make you consider it "the most important book of the 21st Century so far", what exactly are these insights?
Maybe someone should write a book and call it "Merchants of false hope, deception and magical thinking - brought to you by exponential economic growth".