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When Bjorn Lomborg challenged environmental doomsday narratives, he was met with efforts to discredit and silence him.
Two decades later, many of his core arguments have quietly entered the mainstream.
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Amazon says serious vehicle crashes across its delivery network fell more than 23% last year, after it invested over $543 million in safety initiatives, programs, and technology since 2022.
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Did our preindustrial ancestors generally enjoy a sense of inner peace?
Doubtful.
Many suffered from "melancholia"—a condition roughly analogous to anxiety and depression—and sky-high mortality rates caused profound emotional suffering.
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In 1925, people cooled food using insulated cabinets chilled by a block of ice. They typically cost around 140 hours of entry-level work.
Today, a mini fridge at Walmart sells for $184, or 9.8 hours of entry-level work, and is far cheaper to run.
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'An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.' @nytimes's Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. (Annoyingly, NYT doesn't link to Gallup directly, link below.) nytimes.com/2026/09/23/world…
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From 2015 to 2025, global school coverage of basic drinking water rose from 67% to 78%, sanitation from 67% to 77%, and hygiene from 59% to 72%, as the school-age population grew by over 100 million.
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Over and over again, climate alarmists jump to hasty conclusions, then fail to correct the record when their predictions don't pan out.
Olive oil prices are a recent example.
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There is a common fear that intelligent machines will inevitably develop a drive for self-preservation and resist being turned off.
This “instrumental convergence” thesis over-analogizes AI with biologically evolved organisms.
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India’s renewable energy buildout has kept coal output no higher than it was two years ago despite surging power demand, while power-sector emissions have stayed roughly flat since 2024.
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A barrel of oil in the Stone Age was worthless.
A barrel of oil in an industrial civilization can heat homes, move trucks, and power factories.
Nature gives us atoms, but it is humans who give those atoms value.
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Despite inflation, American workers are getting ahead.
Since March 2006, the average US private-sector worker gained the equivalent of roughly 1.1 extra hours of purchasing power for every eight hours worked.
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A conservation breeding program that used other species to foster black robin eggs helped the population grow from five birds in the 1970s to 350 adults.
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To believe things are getting worse when they have, in fact, never been better is a classic misdiagnosis.
And like a medical misdiagnosis, it risks ill-advised treatment: public demand for government action gives populist leaders every incentive to oblige.
Yet such policies often have the opposite effect—exacerbating the problems they’re intended to address.
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The time price of an air conditioning unit in the US has fallen by 98.6 percent since 1952.
For the time it took US workers to earn the money to buy one AC unit in 1952, they could buy 70 today.
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Waymo plans to launch a fully autonomous robotaxi service in Tokyo in 2027 with Japanese taxi firms Go and Nihon Kotsu, starting with a small fleet and expanding to 100 vehicles.
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