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From Science Matters <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joakim Book shines considerable light into modern doomsday darkness, writing his AIER article Unlimited Growth, Forever.<\/strong><\/a>  Book exposes how fundamental human positive aspiration, proven by historical progress and innovation, has been perverted by those nowadays claiming to be progressive, when all they preach is hell and damnation.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is often said that\u00a0only a madman \u2014 or economist \u2014 could believe that we can have infinite growth on a finite planet<\/strong>. Resources are\u00a0scarce and dwindling<\/strong>, we\u2019re told. Day in and day out, we seem poised to use up some civilization-critical ingredient, or we might\u00a0overuse materials to the point of our own downfall.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mindset<\/strong> that makes people believe that we\u2019re perennially on the cusp of some disaster i<\/strong>s on display everywhere from the big screen to the big assembly halls<\/strong>. It has been humanity\u2019s plague since we first broke free of the Malthusian constraints<\/strong> that govern every non-human ecology. And never once do we seem to consider that maybe, just maybe, the madmen\/economists know something the rest of us don\u2019t. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every\u00a0popular scare<\/a>\u00a0of the past has been side-stepped, improved,
or solved, by one or another human effort, usually\u00a0serendipitously<\/a>
and rarely at all with\u00a0well-meaning bureaucrats<\/a>\u00a0directing the process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York University economist Paul Romer,<\/strong> whose work on economic growth<\/a> <\/strong>rewarded him the Nobel Prize in 2018, explains that \u201cnon-economists have said that [his article] helped them understand why unlimited growth is possible<\/strong> in a world with finite resources.\u201d He credits that conclusion to his work on the proliferation of ideas, which he condenses into the following two statements:<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. \u201cwe can\u00a0share discoveries<\/strong>\u00a0with others,\u201d and\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \u201cthere are incomprehensibly\u00a0many discoveries yet<\/strong>\u00a0to be found.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The basic rationale is thus simple: \u201cAlthough we live in a world of a limited number of atoms,\u201d<\/strong> as Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley say in their masterful creation Superabundance<\/a>, \u201cthere are virtually infinite ways to arrange those atoms.<\/strong> The possibilities for creating new value are thus immense.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Economic\u00a0growth<\/strong>\u00a0itself, said University of Mississippi economist\u00a0Josh Hendrickson<\/a>\u00a0in an interchange with\u00a0The Guardian\u2019s George Monbiot a few years ago,\u00a0is about \u201cfinding more efficient uses of resources.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s about observing how market prices and the profit motive urge entrepreneurs and businesses to\u00a0economize on production while producing more value<\/strong>\u00a0for consumers. We can visibly see this in the products that technology has merged into one (smartphones<\/strong>\u00a0displacing a\u00a0dozen or more physical appliances<\/a>), or the\u00a0<\/strong>thinner cans or more efficient engines<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that innovation routinely delivers.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Economists aren\u2019t just playing word games when they say that growth can keep going forever. We can always make more stuff since the physical atoms under our command<\/strong> right now are far from all the physical atoms on our planet (or solar system)<\/strong>. By growth, economists mean value-creation exchanged in the marketplace, a market that can change in the types of value we exchange<\/strong>, and the growing portion of our economies can involve fewer atoms<\/a> <\/strong>than what came before.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cResource\u201d which the general public think of as physical collections of elements in the ground, economists define much more broadly. Nothing becomes a resource until the human mind makes it so<\/strong>, i.e., \u201cthere are no resources until we find them, identify their possible uses, and develop ways to obtain and process them\u201d to quote Julian Simon<\/a>, whose pioneering work in resource economics prompted Tupy and Pooley to launch their Superabundance project. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The boundaries between dirt, mineral\u00a0resource,\u00a0and mineral\u00a0reserve<\/strong>\u00a0can therefore\u00a0shift<\/strong>\u00a0with technology, economic circumstances, or legal rules regarding their extraction \u2014 subject to the \u201cdegree of geological certainty\u201d and \u201cfeasibility of economic recovery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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    What\u2019s even more incredible is that material abundance<\/strong> (how economically accessible certain minerals or agricultural products are) has historically speaking increased with population<\/a>.<\/strong> Instead of individually starving when there are more humans on our supposedly finite planet,<\/strong> we seem to be collectively producing more<\/strong>, having better access to raw materials and the goods and services we produce with them. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Take almost any\u00a0foodstuff,<\/strong>\u00a0meat<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0cereal<\/a>,\u00a0fruit<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0vegetable<\/a>, for almost any country over any period and\u00a0the numbers go up and to the right:<\/strong>\u00a0For\u00a0eight centuries<\/a>\u00a0(probably more), an English laborer has been able to afford more and more foodstuffs for their labor; yet there\u2019s more food production today than at any point in the past.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The counterintuitive conclusion<\/strong> follows naturally from Romer\u2019s work: More humans give us more chances for ideas that exponentially \u201cmake material progress possible<\/a>.\u201d Human society is dynamic, not zero-sum.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Illustration: oil.<\/strong> Thirteen years ago, Camilla Ruz for The Guardian<\/a> enumerated six natural resource scares to pay attention to, of which oil was one. Dire predictions<\/strong> like these are a dime a dozen in the environmentalist world, and no matter how publicly or unequivocally they are disconfirmed by reality, they pop up with renewed vigor a few years later. At the time we had some 46 years\u2019 worth of oil reserves left;<\/strong> that is, at the prices, consumption rate, and technology of 2011<\/strong>, humanity would run out of oil by the late 2050s. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With a billion more people on the planet\u00a0since then<\/strong>, having suitably\u00a0burned some\u00a0386 billion barrels of oil<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the intervening years, we\u00a0now have<\/strong>\u2026 drumroll\u202648 years\u2019 usage in global proven reserves;<\/strong>\u00a0Humanity will now last until the 2070s before its (supposedly limited) reserves of oil run dry.\u00a0Disaster avoided.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The price system, profit-hungry entrepreneurs, and optimizing consumers are pretty good at remedying scarcities when they emerge<\/strong>. If there isn\u2019t enough oil, gas, wheat, gold, nickel, or copper for current human processes, the (real) price of those commodities rise; extracting businesses dig deeper or explore further, and consumers substitute away from the expensive commodity, or we recycle the metals that forever remain with us into something new. Higher prices mean that lower-quality ores are now worth mining<\/strong>, more inaccessible sources and geologists\u2019 best guesses for where we could find more worth exploring. The outcome over decades and centuries is that \u201cprices of resources are declining because more people means more ideas, new inventions and innovations,\u201d<\/strong> according to Tupy and Pooley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That we do not run out is the powerful lesson of both the history of resources and the theory behind their economic uses: Our minds and the black box of nifty ways to improve the world aren\u2019t limited.\u00a0We don\u2019t run out; We simply find more.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The recurring \u201cwe\u2019re running out of X!\u201d outrage therefore seems so peculiar, so out of touch with even a semblance of reality. 194 years ago, before having seen but a tiny fraction of the improvements humanity would make<\/strong> over the following decades and centuries, British historian and poet Thomas Babington (raised to the peerage as Lord Macaulay<\/strong>) wrote<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    though in every age everybody knows that up to his own time progressive improvement has been taking place,<\/strong> nobody seems to reckon on any improvement during the next generation.<\/strong> We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point [\u2026] but so said all who came before us, and with just as much apparent reason.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    He then ended his colloquy with the sentence that human progress-types know by heart:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u201cOn what principle is it that, when we see nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    That was a reasonable enough question in 1830,
    and a terribly relevant one in 2024.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    It is often said that only a madman \u2014 or economist \u2014 could believe that we can have infinite growth on a finite planet. Resources are scarce and dwindling, we\u2019re told. 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We\u2019re routinely given\u00a0hyperbolic predictions\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>about our doom, and no matter whether those predictions come true, they\u2019re renewed in the same or\u00a0slightly altered form a few years later.<\/strong>\u00a0In the meantime, individuals, businesses, workers, investors, tinkerers, and\u00a0all<\/strong>\u00a0the others\u00a0that make up the world economy solve much of the \u201cproblem.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n