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Is it true that the world\\u2019s rapidly growing population is consuming the planet\\u2019s natural resources at an alarming rate that would require two Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources by 2030? Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. They also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population. On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed.

Shermer, Tupy, and Pooley discuss: why we long for the \\u201cgood ol\\u2019 days\\u201d \\u2022 Malthusian trap \\u2022 Ehrlich\\u2019s predictions on overpopulation \\u2022 the birth dearth \\u2022 the Simon Abundance Index \\u2022 compound interest \\u2022 What does it mean for the economy to grow 2\\u20133% a year? \\u2022 accumulating wealth \\u2022 what poorer countries need to do to become richer countries \\u2022 running out of fossil fuels \\u2022 Obama\\u2019s \\u201cyou didn\\u2019t build that\\u201d speech \\u2022 inflation \\u2022 electric vehicles \\u2022 How many people can the Earth sustain? \\u2022 post-scarcity trekonomics \\u2022 the future of religion and other social institutions in a superabundant world.

Marian Tupy is the editor of HumanProgress.org, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute\\u2019s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and coauthor of the Simon Abundance Index. He specializes in globalization and global well-being and the politics and economics of Europe and Southern Africa. He is the coauthor of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting (Cato Institute, 2020). His articles have been published in the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the UK Spectator, Foreign Policy, and various other outlets in the United States and overseas. He has appeared on BBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, and other channels. Tupy received his BA in international relations and classics from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD in international relations from the University of St. Andrews in Great Britain.

Gale Pooley is an associate professor of business management at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. He has taught economics and statistics at Alfaisal Univerity in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Brigham Young University-Idaho; Boise State University; and the College of Idaho. Pooley has held professional designations from the Appraisal Institute, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the CCIM Institute. He has published articles in National Review, HumanProgress.org, The American Spectator, the Foundation for Economic Education, the Utah Bar Journal, the Appraisal Journal, Quillette, Forbes, and RealClearMarkets. His major research activity has been the Simon Abundance Index, which he coauthored with Marian Tupy.