Does Dr Zubrin actually have any model that can be peer reviewed?
If yes, what are the model's predictions?
How well have the predictions from the book (11 years ago) matched the changes that have been observed over the past 11 years?
Curious mind wants to know.
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Ok, I have not read that book, but according to reviews:
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On “global warming”: Contrary to environmentalists, Zubrin holds that global warming is far from calamitous. Although he thinks global warming is real, he considers it to be of negligible effect; to the extent that it exists, he says, it is beneficial.
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Does this track the past 11 years? Maybe someone should ask him what he thinks acount it now?
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.
Read the first chapter of Merchants of Despair.
I see a lot of silly criticisms in this thread. I want to point out the one point Dr. Zubrin makes brilliantly: 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. Prove Dr. Zubrin wrong.
I will not address other silly straw-man arguments.
