Technology offers more cause for hope than dread when it comes to environmental problems.
Mainstream environmental thinking asserts that we must sacrifice at least some of our prosperity in order to protect the environment. Fortunately, this thinking is wrong. We can have both a growing economy and an improving environment. In fact, it seems likely that a growing economy may well provide the very means needed to improve the environment If we are to overcome environmentalist pessimism, we must first dispel some erroneous premises. Natural is the survival of the fittest.