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'Heroes of Progress' (@CatoInstitute) OUT NOW🦸 Dad Manager RTF 🇨🇭 Founder @the_iatp 🌍 Free Trade Fellow @iealondon 🇬🇧 Some other things too Views own!

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Alexander Hammond@AlexanderHammo·
Today marks the official publication of my first-ever book! Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World is the result of years of work, and it's now available in all good bookshops. I truly can’t wait to hear what people think of it. Please consider picking up a copy today: heroesofprogress.com
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Alexander Hammond@AlexanderHammo·
Last week, Paul R. Ehrlich died. During his 93 years of life, extreme poverty declined by 85%, infant mortality by over 80%, undernourishment by 75%, deaths from natural disasters by 98%, and life expectancies increased by 82%. This happened all while another 6 billion people were added to this world, and GDP per capita ballooned by over 650%. For the man who helped inspire the one-child policy in China (leading to the death of 336 million babies), along with the sterilization of 6.2 million people in India, it's a tragedy that his ideas were ever taken seriously. Perhaps if he had lived a few more years, he would have finally acknowledged how wrong he was.
Human Progress@HumanProgress

In 1968, Paul Ehrlich predicted that unchecked population growth would cause mass starvation. Instead, the global death rate fell by over a third, and famines disappeared outside of war zones. How did he get it so wrong? In short, he ignored humanity's ability to innovate.

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Freedom Publishing@wydawnictwofp·
Paul Ehrlich to antybohater dwóch naszych książek: „Przyszłość paliw kopalnych” Alexa Epsteina @AlexEpstein oraz „Superobfitość” Gale'a Pooley'a @gpooley i Mariana Tupy'ego @Marian_L_Tupy wydawnictwofp.pl/ksiazki/przysz… wydawnictwofp.pl/ksiazki/supero…
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Mikołaj Pisarski@MikolajPisarski

Paul Ehrlich nie żyje. Człowiek tak oczywiście mizantropijny i wrogi wobec ludzkości, że aż trudno nie zakrzyknąć: „NARESZCIE!”. Jedyną rzeczą, która powinna nas powstrzymywać, jest myśl, że gdyby nie był on jednym z największych hipokrytów w historii to sam swoją śmierć fetowałby z radością. Jego życie i śmierć powinny nam przypominać o trzech ważnych rzeczach: 1. Idee mają konsekwencje. Jego postulaty piętnowania wielodzietności, kontroli populacji, masowych programów antykoncepcji i sterylizacji oraz presji regulacyjnej i podatkowej na duże rodziny doprowadziły do tego, że dziesiątki milionów ludzi nie urodziły się, a kolejne miliony żyły życiem biedniejszym, podlejszym i gorszym bo wpłynął na nie strach przed katastrofą, która nigdy nie nadeszła. 2. Katastrofizm zawsze dobrze się sprzedaje. Kiedy na przełomie lat 60 i 70 Ehrlich prognozował kryzys przeludnienia, głód, wyczerpanie zasobów naturalnych, zniszczenie środowiska i załamanie cywilizacji uznano go za wizjonera. Szarlatanów głoszących wizje apokalipsy nie brakuje także i dziś. Od post-liberałów wyrosłych ze spiskowej teorii „peak-oil” na prawicy po post-wzrostowców na ekonomicznej lewicy. Ten sam sentyment co w panicznym strachu przed przeludnieniem widać dziś też wśród aktywistów klimatycznych. Wszyscy oni - tak jak Ehrlich - ignorują jeden, fundamentalny fakt: o ile ograniczone są nasze zasoby to absolutnie nieograniczona jest zdolność ludzi do innowacji i kreatywnego rozwiązywania problemów. To właśnie dlatego, pomimo wzrostu globalnej populacji od premiery „Population Bomb” do dziś o ponad 130% ta ogromna populacja zamiast zawalić cywilizację i „zjeść” planetę żyje tak dostatnio jak nigdy wcześniej. 3. Prognozowanie przyszłości - zwłaszcza w naukach społecznych - ma swoje realne granice. Łatwo jest przecenić w nich to „co widać”: ograniczenia, problemy, wyzwania i patologie, a zupełnie niedoszacowań „tego czego nie widać”: innowacji, kreatywności, postępu technologicznego i zdolności społeczeństw do adaptacji. W tym sensie jego słynny zakład z ekonomistą Julianem Simonem - z którym założyli się o wzrost cen i dostępności surowców - który Ehrlich przegrał pozostaje jedną z najbardziej pouczających debat o granicach prognozowania w naukach społecznych. Historia Paula Ehrlicha powinna być przestrogą przed jedną z najstarszych pokus intelektualnych: przekonaniem, że przyszłość da się przewidzieć (i zaplanować) w oparciu o proste ekstrapolowanie problemów teraźniejszości.

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Ben@lambertfromnewz·
@AlexanderHammo You all didn't even put Clem Attlee on your currency; safe to say you're not good at judging which figures deserve that honor.
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Fair enough. It's not like Britain has dozens of historical figures who improved billions of lives and fundamentally created the modern prosperous world, such as: • Adam Smith: Founder of classical economics • Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft: Early pioneers of women’s rights • James Watt: Inventor of the enhanced design of the steam engine • Edward Jenner: Pioneer of the smallpox vaccination, the world’s first vaccine • William Wilberforce: Advocate of freedom who helped end slavery in the British Empire and boosted global efforts to end slavery • Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: Designers of the first automatic digital computer • Richard Cobden: Champion of free trade who led the successful campaign to repeal the Corn Laws • John Stuart Mill: Advocate of free speech, women’s rights, and the harm principle • John Snow: Pioneer of anaesthesiology and father of epidemiology • Joseph Lister: Father of modern surgery • Ronald Ross: Discoverer of the spread of malaria via mosquitoes • Winston Churchill: Led the Allies to victory in WW2. • Alexander Fleming: Discoverer of penicillin • Lucy Wills: Discoverer of folic acid’s ability to prevent anaemia • Alan Turing: Computing pioneer who cracked Nazi Germany’s Enigma code • Peter Mansfield: Co-Creator of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine And just a few hundred more.
ITV News@itvnews

Historical figures on banknotes to be replaced with British wildlife itv.com/news/2026-03-1…

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The joys of living in a high-trust society: In Switzerland, I can go on a walk with my wife and young daughter. If the little one is being too fussy in the stroller, we can leave it on the side of the pavement (with the bottom full of stuff we've just bought), until we come back to it a few hours later. The pram could be literally sitting in the centre of town for hours, and we know nothing will happen. The joy.
🇬🇧 𝙔𝙊𝙊𝙆𝘼𝙔 𝘼𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙎 🇬🇧@MythoYookay

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Katie Miller@KatieMiller·
In the UK for the first time in human history there are more women without children at 30 than there are women with children.
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Cato Institute@CatoInstitute·
The “everything sucks” mindset on both the right and left ignores reality, says Cato’s @Marian_L_Tupy. Living standards, incomes, and long-term affordability have risen in America—and there’s reason for optimism. Learn more in the latest issue of Free Society magazine: ow.ly/pKRc50YmCG2
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Human Progress@HumanProgress·
In the 1960s, much of the world lacked adequate protein, with many countries averaging less than 50 grams per person per day. Since then, protein has become far more abundant—especially in Asia, where consumption has roughly doubled.
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Marian L Tupy@Marian_L_Tupy·
Autism crisis that never was! But boy, do we love to crap on modernity and scare ourselves to death. America's favorite pastime. We are so rich and comfortable, we invent trouble.
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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss@bariweiss·
Jimmy Lai should be a household name in the free world. The dissident just sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong. Read about him in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-dissiden…
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Maria H.@mariachammond·
Europe moves slowly because it has already moved fast. It has burned through empires, wars, revolutions, ideological frenzies, and civilisational collapses. It has seen speed. It has survived it.
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Steve Davies
Steve Davies@SteveDavies365·
Event on 28th with the book - published today!
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As part of a widespread government crackdown, John Mugabi, a tireless Ugandan defender of freedom and close @the_iatp partner, is in hiding from President Museveni's security forces following last week's sham election. The authorities claim he was 'trying to overthrow the government'. In reality, for almost a decade, he has worked to advance economic education, promote gender equality, and advocate for free-market reforms. The international community should immediately condemn these crackdowns by the Ugandan government and halt the millions of pounds we send to prop up this dictatorship in the form of foreign aid.
Initiative For African Trade and Prosperity@the_iatp

John Mugabi, @africa_aled Director and IATP Fellow, is in hiding after the Ugandan government escalated crackdowns on the opposition. His volunteers were arrested. His family were threatened at their home by security forces. He and his family are now safe but remain in hiding.

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