Sunday, 17 November 2019

More from Less


Yes, it's time for another book. I will state up front that I have not read this book...yet. It just came to my attention today. However, it's subject matter deserves delving into. For it deals partly with an issue that has been brought up in the comments section in the past, the effects of population growth. As so many have assumed, me included, the effects of a rise in population on our planetary resources could only lead to their depletion. But as some have suggested there may be technological, and other advances, that have just the opposite effect. This book sheds light on that argument. The book is:


Without further introduction I will let Andrew McAfee explain:



I think it important to emphasize the last point that McAfee makes about the involvement of good government. None of this would have occurred if it weren't for smart policy decisions by past governments. And we are now in danger of undoing some of that good,