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You and Obama’s science adviser would see eye to eye, but you both would be wrong. The title of this thread refers to a book originally published in 1981 by Princeton called “The Ultimate Resource.” Its author, Julian Simon wagered anyone $20,000 that they could not find diminishing natural resources, the underlying theme being that humans and human intelligence improve the human condition. John Holdren, Paul Erlich (Holdren’s mentor, and author of the ridiculously wrong book called “The Population Bomb”), John Harte, from Holdren’s (Marxist)cell at U.C. Berkeley (called the Energy and Environment Group), and Ehrlich's wife, whom I believe, besides being a biologist, is on the board of The Sierra Club took up Simon's challenge. To get to the point, they picked a collection of minerals and were wrong on every pick. They didn't have the confidence to take up Simon on the full amount of the wager, but split the wager among each other and bet upon five or so minerals.

Human’s are the ultimate resource, while that seems to many, counterintuitive. Overpopulation is not the problem. The lack of free enterprise is the problem. Many countries are crippled by centrally controlled economies. The U.S. is showing the effects of central planning. Holdren and Ehrlich propose active measures to cut world population by more than half, probably because, like many arrogant academician/idiologues, they never produced anything other than criticism of the productive society themselves. Holdren is now a Theresa Kerry funded idiologue at Harvard's Kennedy school while Paul Ehrlich is a Bing Professor and Anne get's funded by Tides, Environmental Defense Fund (trial lawyers) and their fellow travelers. When Norman Borlaug’s green revolution, genetic engineering, took hold in Bangladesh, contrary to Ehrlich's prediction of hundreds of millions of deaths from starvation, Bangladesh became a food exporter.