Paul Sabin's Blog

“Provides surprising insights for anyone involved in addressing the world’s ‘wicked problems.’… I recommend The Bet to anyone wanting to understand the history of the divisive discussions we have today, especially the stalemate over climate change.”
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I discuss "The Bet" and recent environmental politics with host John Dankosky. Audio link: http://wnpr.org/post/ehrlich-and-simo...

How are climate change and population growth different from each other? What are some lessons from the Ehrlich-Simon bet? I discuss "The Bet" on the New York Times Economix blog.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/201...

ONE day in October 1990, the iconoclastic economist Julian L. Simon walked out to get the mail at his house in the Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md. In a small envelope sent from Palo Alto, Calif., he found a sheet of metal prices . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/opi...

Our current stalemate over climate policy has important roots in earlier battles over population growth and resource scarcity... from The Daily Beast.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...

Jon Christensen, writing in Nature, calls THE BET, “A revealing tale … used to explain the whole messy evolution of US environmental politics from the early 1970s, when Republican Richard Nixon was an environmental champion, to today, when Republican environmentalists are an endangered species.” (paywall) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...

Roger Pielke, Jr. calls THE BET "A wonderful new book … a fantastic introduction to population resource debates of the late-twentieth century.”

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Here's a thoughtful review of THE BET by Fred Pearce in New Scientist. Pearce writes, "A brilliant idea for a book. In THE BET, Paul Sabin has produced an absorbing narrative of how two people’s ‘clashing insights’ unleashed on the world polarised views of the environmental and resource threats we face in the 21st century."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/m...