Sunday, December 09, 2018
Unforeseen Contingencies update!
Greetings readers, real or imagined!
Blogging has been sparse, owing to a heavy workload. As we are almost to the end of the semester, "we" at Unforeseen Contingencies plan to pick up the pace a bit soon. Meanwhile, here's a brief summary of some of what has kept me busy.
1. IPCC's recent Special Report SR 15 has next to nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with promoting a world government that centrally plans a global economy. Among other things, it calls for national governments to take over allocation of finance. It also calls for the elimination of fossil fuels and wealth redistribution from wealthy (i.e. productive) countries to poor (i.e. unproductive) countries. It's utter nonsense and should be rejected. I'll explain in an upcoming post.
2. Space economics -- I've been reading like crazy in this field. Space development is likely to revolutionize our economies. It's *far* more urgent than climate change. How we do it will matter greatly. I'll blog on this soon.
3. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb is now 50 years old. I've been working on a careful analysis of his predictions; he's so wildly wrong that the neo-Malthusian worldview is entirely refuted. The few predictions he gets right are the ones where problems are caused by absence of private property rights...and none of them are the life-or-death problems he makes them out to be.
I'll probably comment on these in the future, and certainly will have some Christmas and end-of-the-year posts.
Meanwhile, I've updated the Unforeseen Contingencies blogroll to include Victory Girls and The Stream. Victory Girls is run by a passel of libertarian-leaning conservative women. They tend to be pretty feisty. It's good. The Stream is a conservative blog usually written from a Christian standpoint; again, usually libertarian-leaning. It can be interesting. Meanwhile, nominally libertarian sources (Reason, and even Cato) seem to be plunging headlong into post-modernism, allowing the post-modernist left to frame the terms of debate. I suppose I'll have to blog about that, too.
Blogging has been sparse, owing to a heavy workload. As we are almost to the end of the semester, "we" at Unforeseen Contingencies plan to pick up the pace a bit soon. Meanwhile, here's a brief summary of some of what has kept me busy.
1. IPCC's recent Special Report SR 15 has next to nothing to do with climate change, and everything to do with promoting a world government that centrally plans a global economy. Among other things, it calls for national governments to take over allocation of finance. It also calls for the elimination of fossil fuels and wealth redistribution from wealthy (i.e. productive) countries to poor (i.e. unproductive) countries. It's utter nonsense and should be rejected. I'll explain in an upcoming post.
2. Space economics -- I've been reading like crazy in this field. Space development is likely to revolutionize our economies. It's *far* more urgent than climate change. How we do it will matter greatly. I'll blog on this soon.
3. Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb is now 50 years old. I've been working on a careful analysis of his predictions; he's so wildly wrong that the neo-Malthusian worldview is entirely refuted. The few predictions he gets right are the ones where problems are caused by absence of private property rights...and none of them are the life-or-death problems he makes them out to be.
I'll probably comment on these in the future, and certainly will have some Christmas and end-of-the-year posts.
Meanwhile, I've updated the Unforeseen Contingencies blogroll to include Victory Girls and The Stream. Victory Girls is run by a passel of libertarian-leaning conservative women. They tend to be pretty feisty. It's good. The Stream is a conservative blog usually written from a Christian standpoint; again, usually libertarian-leaning. It can be interesting. Meanwhile, nominally libertarian sources (Reason, and even Cato) seem to be plunging headlong into post-modernism, allowing the post-modernist left to frame the terms of debate. I suppose I'll have to blog about that, too.
