THE ECO-HYSTERICS ARE WRONG

THE ECO-LEFT CRIES THAT THE SKY IS FALLING, THE WORLD IS GROWING EVER MORE POLLUTED AND WARM, AND WARNS THAT WE CANNOT SUSTAIN OUR GROWTH.

HOGWASH.

REASON HAS A DETAILED ARTICLE ABOUT HOW 20th CENTURY INDUSTRIALIZATION - WHICH LEFTIES AND LUDDITES AND GREENIES LOVE TO THRASH - ACTUALLY VASTLY IMPROVED THE HEALTH AND LIVING STANDARDS FOR THE INDUSTRIALIZED.

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"... life expectancy increased from 47 years to 77 years. Onset of major disease such as cancer, heart, and respiratory disease has been postponed between eight and eleven years in the past century. Heart disease and cancer rates have been in rapid decline over the last two decades, and total cancer deaths have actually declined the last two years, despite increases in population. Among the very young, infant mortality has declined from 100 deaths per 1,000 births in 1913 to just seven per 1,000 today.

These improvements haven’t been restricted to the United States. It’s a global phenomenon.

Worldwide, life expectancy has more than doubled, from 31 years in 1900 to 67 years today. India’s and China’s infant mortalities exceeded 190 per 1,000 births in the early 1950s; today they are 62 and 26, respectively. In the developing world, the proportion of the population suffering from chronic hunger declined from 37 percent to 17 percent between 1970 and 2001 despite a 83 percent increase in population.

Globally average annual incomes in real dollars have tripled since 1950. Consequently, the proportion of the planet's developing-world population living in absolute poverty has halved since 1981, from 40 percent to 20 percent. Child labor in low income countries declined from 30 percent to 18 percent between 1960 and 2003.

RTWT. (VIA TIM BLAIR.) TO IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR THEIR CITIZENS, THE NATIONS OF THE THIRD WORLD NEED MORE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION - NOT CARBON CREDIT DUMPS AND INTERNATIONAL AID!

THE ECO-HYSTERICS WRONG: THE WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER FOR HUMANITY, AND THE PROSPECTS FOR CONTINUED ADVANCEMENT ARE GREAT - IF WE DON'T SQUASH ECONOMIC GROWTH WITH ANTI-INDUSTRIAL/ANTI-CAPITALIST/ANTI-GLOBALIZATION TAXES AND REGULATIONS.