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Freelance writer and globetrotter with an unhealthy addiction to financial history and all things money. #future #optimism #monpol #climate

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Natural Disasters Claim Fewer Lives Thanks to Human Progress

Natural disasters and their terrible impact on human societies have almost gone full circle. In the...

Mar 18, 2021
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What Do the Numbers Show about Global Deforestation?

Trees are icons of nature and significant carbon sinks, so anyone interested in climate change is...

Mar 3, 2021
Human Progress
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Put Your Money Where Your Mountain Is

Rosalie Edge was an astonishing woman, as her biographer Dyana Furmansky recounts in Rosalie Edge,...

Jan 5, 2021
Human Progress
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How the Dutch Tamed the Waters

Britannia may once have ruled the waves, but it was the Dutch who tamed the sea. In water...

Oct 28, 2020
Human Progress
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Nothing Is More Responsible for the Good Old Days Than a Bad Memory

Memory often plays tricks with our understanding of the world. We are absolutely sure that we left...

Oct 7, 2020
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Fighting Plastic Windmills

For such a small item, plastic bags receive a surprising amount of public attention. In recent...

Sep 16, 2020
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The Return of the Dead: Countering Extinction

Animals die all the time. Sometimes so much so that entire species go extinct – a terrible loss for...

Jul 22, 2020
Human Progress
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Reforestation in Iceland and Other Wealthy Countries

When a country’s population gets wealthy enough, its preferences change. One well-established...

Jul 10, 2020
Human Progress
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This Summer, Remember that Ice Was Once a Luxury

Before refrigerators became commercially viable in the late-1800s and common household appliances...

Jun 15, 2020
Human Progress
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The Rousseauian Myth of a Passenger Pigeon

On a cliff overlooking the upper Mississippi River in Wyalusing State Park, Wisconsin, stands a...

May 23, 2020
Human Progress
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Nineteenth Century Inequality Not As Bad As We Think

When prices change, how that impacts people depends crucially on which prices increase and what...

Feb 17, 2020
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Worldviews Are Pessimistic Because They Are Outdated

In the book he published shortly before his death, the late professor of global health, Hans...

Dec 12, 2019
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