Global Trends: December 2004

Gambling with the Future

By: Dick Ahlstrom

Description: "Paul Ehrlich held that voracious consumption would leave the West reeling when essential resources ran out. Julian Simon believed that people should be allowed to consume as they like because they can rely on technology or ingenuity to find a way forward. Both were too constricted in their perspective."

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