Writing about the environment is hardly my day job, but nevertheless, the biggest response I have had to an oped so far was for last week’s “Isn’t all this talk of an apocalypse getting a bit boring?” in The Age. The piece used the fortieth anniversary of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb to make the case for general optimism about the future – on almost every measure, the world is getting healthier, cleaner and richer. Read the rest of this entry »