Environmentalists’ (Non)Predictive Powers
EU Rota shows us what fools we would have been to believe the leading lights of environmentalism in the early 1970s.
He covers availability of land for agriculture, agricultural production, mineral resources, and unemployment. He could have gone on and on.
Never mind their pitiful predictive abilities. In the face of the historical record that contradicts them at every turn, they continue to place no faith in human ingenuity and no belief in the market’s ability to efficiently allocate resources and make people’s lives better. And yet, again in the face of the march of events that ridicules them from the sidelines, they religiously believe that an all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-regulating government leviathan can do better.
Yet their every utterance is treated with total deference by a press that refuses to follow up on the accuracy of previous predictions. So, EU Rota and others must do it for them.
