Deep Optimism

Matt Ridley nails Malthusianism again. And probably annoys a few Deep Greens with this:

If there are three things I fear, as a passionate environmentalist who wants to see wild habitats restored all over the world, they are biofuels, renewable electricity and organic farming. Each would demand much, much more land from nature.

We need deep optimism to guide Ireland - and the world - to a better place in the years and decades ahead. Ridley shows the way.