For those who believe our unsustainable civilization’s collapse ought to happen in 3…2…1…now, Reason’s Ron Bailey peeks out of the survival bunker and decides, hey, we’re not so bad off after all:
The Malthusian meme always insists “things just can’t go on like this.” Of course, if “things can’t go on like this,” then they don’t. Humanity changes course and things get better. At least that has been the story of the last two centuries and the evidence is that it will be the story of the 21st century as well.