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Why a shrinking human population is a good thing

The other day I was asked to do an interview for a South Korean radio station about the declining-population “crisis”. Therein lies the rub — there is no crisis. While I think the interview went well (you can listen to it here), I didn’t have ample time to flesh out my arguments; I’ve decided to […]

by CJAB Thu, 30 Jun 2022

Which countries are the ‘wealthiest’?

Last week I wrote a post about various indices of country-level environmental performance, which I prefaced with a caveat that the data are a few years old. This week I’m going to discuss national indices of economic performance and prosperity. There are indeed some surprises. But standard metrics of economic performance at the national level […]

by CJAB Thu, 23 Jun 2022Thu, 23 Jun 2022

Best and worst countries by different environmental indicators

I’ll preface this post with a caveat — the data herein are a few years old (certainly pre-COVID), so things have likely changed a bit. Still, I think the main message holds. Many years ago, I compiled seven different national-level measures of environmental degradation to show that countries with the largest human populations, and hence, […]

by CJAB Wed, 15 Jun 2022Wed, 15 Jun 2022

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