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Climate science is now moving away from the most extreme scenarios. The Honest Broker explains why on our podcast: "Our expectation for future emissions has come down dramatically, largely because there was an assumption everything was going to go towards coal... Another big factor—and it’s one that really hasn’t made its way into climate projections yet—are changing outlooks on global population. The leading climate scenarios still have 12, 13 billion people on the planet in 2100 and still growing. And demographers are now seriously talking about a global population peak soon after mid-century."
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In 1968, Paul Ehrlich predicted that unchecked population growth would cause mass starvation. Instead, the global death rate fell by over a third, and famines disappeared outside of war zones. How did he get it so wrong? In short, he ignored humanity's ability to innovate.
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The global suicide rate has fallen by nearly 40% since the 1990s. Steven Pinker explains: "a lot of that is due to urbanization." "When a woman is put into an arranged marriage, leaves her village, ... is dominated by her mother-in-law, has no friends, no way of escaping, that leads to a lot of suicides."
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Measured properly, poverty in the United States has virtually disappeared.
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A country's rate of economic growth is inversely correlated with the size of its government.
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