The best book on this subject is Bob Zubrin’s “The Merchants of Despair”. His thesis was that in every evil ideology which ever existed one can detect an element of Malthusianism.
It seems to me that much of the time the efforts of “environmentalists” result in a worse problem than they tried to “solve”.
I wonder how many people have died as a result.
An example is the EU directive removing lead from solder. The almost pure tin grows whiskers, allegedly one of the causes of irreproduceable reported faults in avionics in airliners. Nice when you have fly by wire. Lots else too.
Motive, Opportunity and Ability. He fell short in the latter two criteria.
Paywalled. Wrong about everything however doesn’t leave much to the imagination…
The best book on this subject is Bob Zubrin’s “The Merchants of Despair”. His thesis was that in every evil ideology which ever existed one can detect an element of Malthusianism.
It seems to me that much of the time the efforts of “environmentalists” result in a worse problem than they tried to “solve”.
I wonder how many people have died as a result.
An example is the EU directive removing lead from solder. The almost pure tin grows whiskers, allegedly one of the causes of irreproduceable reported faults in avionics in airliners. Nice when you have fly by wire. Lots else too.