Chelsea Olivia Follett

My account will be quieter for a bit (or maybe re-tweet at strange hours) thanks to this little fellow, our fourth child. Of all times throughout history, there has never been a better time to be born.

Time to make this a non-partisan symbol.

Why I really need free trade in my life

Is low fertility a downstream effect of the negative sentiment contagion? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

In thinking of the legacy of Paul Ehrlich, the following by CS Lewis springs to mind: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

If you want to understand the full scope of what happened, more of the harrowing details can be found here: #chinas-one-child-policy-1979-2015" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cato.org/policy-analysi…

Neo-Malthusian policies often led to coercion, empowering governments and bureaucracies to police the most intimate human decisions. The result has been some of the most disturbing human rights abuses of the modern era.

May Paul Ehrlich rest in peace, and may the neo-Malthusianism he advocated quietly recede into history. For however well-intentioned many of its adherents may have been, this idea's legacy is one of great suffering. China's one-child policy saw over 100 million sterilizations and more than 300 million abortions, many coerced. India's Emergency saw 11 million sterilizations, many forced. Neo-Malthusian policies have also increased sex-selective abortion and even female infanticide.

Mamdani’s politics are grounded in an ideology that first arose from the frustrations of the early industrial era. But going backwards is not the answer, says Cato's @chellivia. Life in pre-industrial New York City was worse than a modern person can imagine. cato.org/commentary/thi…

@Marian_L_Tupy I’m happy that he lived a long life and see all his predictions to be proven false. RIP

No one should ever underestimate the power of ideas, whether for good or ill. Bad ideas, especially, do not remain harmless abstractions. They descend from books and lecture halls into laws, clinics, and courtrooms. They acquire the force of institutions. They seize bodies as well as minds. I did not know Paul Ehrlich personally, though we crossed swords on X a few times. Perhaps in private he was a decent man. Yet whatever his private character, he showed little decency toward his opponents, least of all toward the gentle Julian Simon, whom he attacked with a malice that was often personal as much as intellectual. Still, the ultimate judgment on a man who enters public life is not about manners, but about consequences. Even decent men must answer for the ideas they unleash and for the suffering those ideas inflict on others. And what was wrought in the name of Ehrlich’s population panic? Men castrated. Women forcibly sterilized. Babies aborted. Millions of human lives disfigured or destroyed. All for a fear that proved false: the fear that there would be too many people, when the deeper danger now gathering over much of the world is that there will be too few. Such is the terrible career of a bad idea. It begins as a theory, passes itself off as compassion, and ends in cruelty. As Nietzsche warned, “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” amazon.com/Superabundance…

At the turn of the 20th century, each US farmer fed around 7 people. Today, that number has risen to 125. While the US population grew by 346%, farmer productivity soared by 1,702%. humanprogress.org/more-people-mo…

Convinced that the growing population would make natural resources ever more scarce and thus drive up costs, Dr. Ehrlich accepted Mr. Simon’s challenge, betting that the prices of five key metals would rise in the 1980s. Mr. Simon believed that innovation would drive prices down.

This is wild. theaustralian.com.au/business/techn…

@LizWolfeReason Such beautiful eyes! May his memory be a blessing.

I miss him.

@alyssakrejmas Thanks!

@chellivia Congrats!!! So cute

My account will be quieter for a bit (or maybe re-tweet at strange hours) thanks to this little fellow, our fourth child. Of all times throughout history, there has never been a better time to be born.

@georgia12000333 Thank you!

@chellivia God bless you and your beautiful family 🙏

@SouthernKeeks Thank you!

@techn0politics Thank you!

@chellivia What an angelic face!

@sivori Thank you!

@chellivia Beautiful baby.

@MoreBirths Thank you!

@chellivia Congratulations!!!