The PRC Forum - Julian Simon (1of6)

Julian Simon foresaw the falling natural resource prices, increased world oil supply, and decline in farmland prices. His view of population economics is unique and persuasive. Discussion covers resources, environment, population growth and his analytical methods.

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[legendre007]

Thank you very much for re-uploading this. Doomsday-obsessed statists need to learn the truth from people like Julian L. Simon. :-)

[StateofMind09]

"...technological progess can only advance so far."

What makes you assume that? People of every time period assume that they're in a time that is approaching the limit to human progress, but they're always far off.

[irwinchurch25]

This is one "divergent" video. =p

[ogelioholde921r]

This video is a favorite on Hungary

[VictorLepanto]

I need to quibble w/ him on life expectancy. I have to wonder, how does that below 30 stat shift if we factor out infant mortality. We need to remember, these are average life expectancies.

[DonVoghano]

@StateofMind09 Nobody can guess what would happen in a free society, nor can anyone have an even hazy idea of what it might look like. This whole concept of liberty is as ravaged and tired as a beautiful girl thrown in a pit of convicts and raped for a couple of decades. Liberty is the flip side of power, it's power that we need to look at.

[StateofMind09]

@DonVoghano I do think that the two are related, and even that the relationship is how you've described it (progress is born from a content society, not vice-versa) at its essential level, I think that it's a bit more complicated than that. We're at inside of a huge outlier on the graph of technological growth, so it's a little hard to say with certainty how cyclical any of this is. What we might disagree on, though, is that I believe in a free society necessity will find what it's looking for.

[DonVoghano]

@StateofMind09 Technology has always been at the periphery of quality of life, the boom in 1st world standards of living has little to do with tech and a lot to do with the ideological warfare of the post-WW2 bipolar world. It's no surprise that standards of living have been creeping back to their age-old (low) equilibria since the mid 70s, when the Soviets were effectively dealt with.

[Huttate1]

"The more we use, the more we have" Staggering! Finite resources anyone?

His lack of knowledge is unbelievable. The simple fact is that this current 200 year blip is coming to an end now.

He is one of the greatest idiots ever to draw breath. The only idiots greater are those that, like him, have no concept of the exponential.

"We'll never run out of copper because it can be made from other metals"

"The only limit to energy is the sun and if that runs out we can get another one"

[meadowfabricsdotcom]

@Ameisenmann

Not in real terms (as a percentage of income). Ha,

[meadowfabricsdotcom]

@acavideo - you are a deeply sad and twisted individual. Why do you hate humanity so much?

[totallymassive]

The more we use the more we have...We need problems? Yes the more we wipe out Cod the more Cod we will have. The problem of no Cod will increase our ability to get Cod (even if there is no Cod). This is silly non-sense. People advancing does not mean we forget about where we came from and the organisms and environments that allowed us to flourish. People dont hold all the answers. Lots of human ideas came from observations of creatures (actually I think the majority came from this process).