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</div><div>see simon pow</div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Simon-Ehrlich wager<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[</h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager" title="Simon-Ehrlich wager" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Simon-Ehrlich wager</a></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Lincoln_Simon" title="Julian Lincoln Simon" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Julian Lincoln Simon</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian" title="Cornucopian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cornucopian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist" title="Economist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">economist</a> has argued that overpopulation is not a problem in itself, and that humanity will adapt to changing conditions. Simon argued that in the long run, human creativity would constantly improve living standards, and that the Earth's resources were, in effect, infinite.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R.Ehrlich#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a> Ehrlich called Simon the leader of a "space-age cargo cult" of economists convinced that new resources would miraculously appear and re-asserted the idea that population growth was outstripping the earth's supplies of food, fresh water and minerals.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R.Ehrlich#cite_note-tierney1990-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> This exchange led to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon-Ehrlich_wager" title="Simon-Ehrlich wager" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Simon-Ehrlich wager</a>, a bet about the trend of prices for certain metals that he made in 1980 with, and lost to, Julian Simon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R.Ehrlich#cite_note-tierney1990-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> Economists later showed that Ehrlich would have won in the majority of 10-year-periods over the last century.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R.Ehrlich#cite_note-Betting_on_the_Apocalypse-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R.Ehrlich#cite_note-Grantham-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a>=Simon was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_skepticism" title="Environmental skepticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">skeptical</a>, in 1994, of claims that human activity caused global environmental damage, notably in relation to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFCs" class="mw-redirect" title="CFCs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">CFCs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion" title="Ozone depletion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">ozone depletion</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">climate change</a>, the latter primarily because of the perceived rapid switch from fears of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling" title="Global cooling" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">global cooling</a> and a new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age" title="Ice age" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">ice age</a> (in the mid-1970s) to the later fears of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">global warming</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a>Simon also listed numerous claims about alleged environmental damage and health dangers from pollution as "definitely disproved". These included claims about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning" title="Lead poisoning" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">lead pollution</a> & IQ, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT" title="DDT" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">DDT</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl" title="Polychlorinated biphenyl" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">PCBs</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malathion" title="Malathion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">malathion</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange" title="Agent Orange" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Agent Orange</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos" title="Asbestos" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">asbestos</a>, and the chemical contamination at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal" title="Love Canal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Love Canal</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> He dismissed such concerns as a mere "value judgement."<blockquote class="templatequote" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">But also, to a startling degree, the decision about whether the overall effect of a child or migrant is positive or negative depends on the values of whoever is making the judgment – your preference to spend a dollar now rather than to wait for a dollar-plus-something in twenty or thirty years, your preferences for having more or fewer wild animals alive as opposed to more or fewer human beings alive, and so on.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a></blockquote><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;">Influence[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julian_Simon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Influence" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a>]</h3>Simon was one of the founders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market_environmentalism" title="Free-market environmentalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">free-market environmentalism</a>. An article entitled "The Doomslayer"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Simon#cite_note-doomslayer-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a> profiling Julian Simon in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Wired</a> magazine inspired Danish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg" title="Bjørn Lomborg" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bjørn Lomborg</a> to write the book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeptical_Environmentalist" title="The Skeptical Environmentalist" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Skeptical Environmentalist</a>.<a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/julian-simon-was-right-half-century-population-growth">https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/julian-simon-was-right-half-century-population-growth</a>==</div></div>