Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance

Foreword viiPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xviiPart I The Great Betterment1 Right Here, Right Now 3Part II Fewer2 The Population Explosion, Malthus, and the Ghost of Christmas Present 193 The Demographic Transition: Running Out of and Into People 314 Having Fewer Children: "People Respond to Incentives" 435 Age Before Beauty: Life in an Aging Society 59Part III Richer6 Before the Great Enrichment: The Year 1 to 1750 797 The Great Enrichment: 1750 to Today 898 Food 1019 Health and Longevity 12110 Energy: A BTU is a Unit of Work You Don't Have to Do 13511 Cities 15512 Education: The Third Democratization 17113 Conflict, Safety, and Freedom 19114 The Alleviation of Poverty 217Part IV Explorations15 Robots Don't Work for Free: A Meditation on Technology and Jobs 24516 The Mismeasurement of Growth: Why You Aren't Driving a Model T 26917 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Deirdre McCloskey, Capitalism, and Christian Ethics 28518 Simon and Ehrlich: Cornucopianism versus the Limits to Growth 29919 Obstacles 30520 "He Shall Laugh": Why Weren't Our Ancestors Miserable All the Time? 319Part V Greener21 Prologue: Why Poor is Brown and Rich is Green 33122 A Skeptical Environmentalist: The Greening World of Bjørn Lomborg 33923 Dematerialization: Where Did My Record Collection Go? 35524 "We are as Gods": The Fertile Mind of Stewart Brand 36925 Ecomodernism: A Way Forward 379Afterword 403Reader's Guide: Annotated Suggestions for Further Learning 407References 415Index 439