Bet on a Better Future. The proposition that there is a crisis in our environment is all wrong on the scientific facts. Even the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency makes clear that our air and water have been getting cleaner rather than dirtier in the past few decades. Every resource economist knows that natural resources have been becoming more available rather than more scarce, as shown by their falling prices over the past decades and centuries.
Every demographer knows that the death rate has been falling all over the world.
Life expectancy has almost tripled in the rich countries over the past couple of hundred years, and almost doubled in just the past 50 years or so in the poor countries. Yes, I'll bet on it. I'll bet a week's or a month's pay with any of the prominent doomsdayers, and what I win goes to pay for more research. I'll bet that just about any trend pertaining to material human welfare will improve, rather than get worse. More people and increased income lead to pressure on resources.