It’s Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

by Gregg Easterbrook

The decline of developing-world poverty should be viewed as the focal story of the last quarter-century. Since that story cannot be observed from the United States and Europe, Westerners largely are unaware.

Why has there been no second Dust Bowl? Because high-yield crops don’t fail.

THE SUMMATION OF WHY WE don’t starve might be this: agricultural output gets higher because farms get smaller. This is an example both of dynamism and of the virtue of reform.

Examine this

THE SUMMATION OF WHY NATURE does not collapse might be this: nature doesn’t collapse because it can’t.

No its because humans made some big change

The declines of combat and of per-capita military spending go largely unremarked upon, which is a puzzling aspect of our moment.