Cause for Optimism

Pete DuPont, writing for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, has penned a great piece ,culled from a Greg Easterbrook book, detailing how good life has become.

"We are not running out of any resource--oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum or anything else. Pollution is down; today's new cars emit "less than 2% as much pollution per mile as a car of 1970." Man and technology are not the enemies of the natural environment. In Connecticut the population tripled and agricultural production quadrupled in the 20th century, yet the state is 59% forested today compared with 37% in the 19th century."

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