IN THE MAIL: Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger’s Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.
Plus, Paul Aligica’s Prophecies of Doom and Scenarios of Progress: Herman Kahn, Julian Simon and the Prospective Imagination. Kahn and Simon’s predictions have certainly been borne out to a much greater extent than those of their contemporary doomsayers like Paul Ehrlich.