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The Rational Optimist society champions human prosperity through truths about innovation, freedom, and technological progress.

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Read about SMPs (Small Modular Reactors)

Who’s winning the SMR race?

If friendly aliens landed on Earth in 2025, they’d be baffled.

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Read about the death of Climate Change/Global Warming:

The great climate climbdown is finally here

From the original Rational Optimist

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Consider this:

A common argument is human progress comes at the expense of the natural environment. Does it?

• There are more trees on earth today than 35 years ago, and more forestland in America than 100 years ago.
  
• US carbon output is at 17 year lows and rapidly plunging. Not per just per capita – overall. Same in the UK, France, and most of the west.
  
• Drinking water is cleaner worldwide than ever.

• Climate-related deaths have fallen to all-time lows.

• London’s air has never been cleaner for as far back as we have data.

• There’s record high coral on 2/3rds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

• Formerly endangered species like the humpback whale have come roaring back.

And keep in mind: the most prosperous countries enjoy by far the cleanest environments. Prosperity and a clean environment go hand in hand.

Overpopulation is another boogeyman. Sorry catastrophizers. The UN now projects the global human population will plateau naturally at about 9-10 billion. Turns out, as societies get richer, they have less babies.

So those who think the world is getting worse are objectively wrong.

Why should you be a Rational Optimist?

Becoming a Rational Optimist is good for your mental and physical health, wealth, family, and country, and you shouldn’t feel guilty or naïve about it.First, think about how so many became so pessimistic in the first place.A common explanation is evolution. Pessimists are more attuned to...

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True or false? I know why the alarmists cry disaster, they want big money to flow their way to address calamities that they aren't going to fix. But I'm not sure I see the other side getting richer by denying the catastrophic forecasts, moreso than the alarmists and their politicos. Why should we have to pay trillions for unproven solutions? So far, all I've seen is a lotta money going into somebody's pocket with little or no positive change.

 

[Woodznutz]

Optimism is a voice crying in the wilderness.

 

[task0778]

Optimism is a voice crying in the wilderness.

Yeah, the sad part is that politics and the bureaucracy can be difficult to overcome.

 

[Woodznutz]

Yeah, the sad part is that politics and the bureaucracy can be difficult to overcome.

The good news is that the individual can do an end run around those and just go for the brass ring. Of course, this requires a spirit of individualism.

 

[DennisPTate]

What to read something positive? Check this out, you can donate if you want to but it's a free weekly newsletter about positive developments in so many areas.

Rational Optimist Society | community of thinkers

The Rational Optimist society champions human prosperity through truths about innovation, freedom, and technological progress.

rationaloptimistsociety.com

Read about SMPs (Small Modular Reactors)

Who’s winning the SMR race?

If friendly aliens landed on Earth in 2025, they’d be baffled.

www.rationaloptimistsociety.com

Read about the death of Climate Change/Global Warming:

The great climate climbdown is finally here

From the original Rational Optimist

www.rationaloptimistsociety.com

Consider this:

A common argument is human progress comes at the expense of the natural environment. Does it?

• There are more trees on earth today than 35 years ago, and more forestland in America than 100 years ago.
• US carbon output is at 17 year lows and rapidly plunging. Not per just per capita – overall. Same in the UK, France, and most of the west.
• Drinking water is cleaner worldwide than ever.
• Climate-related deaths have fallen to all-time lows.
• London’s air has never been cleaner for as far back as we have data.
• There’s record high coral on 2/3rds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
• Formerly endangered species like the humpback whale have come roaring back.

And keep in mind: the most prosperous countries enjoy by far the cleanest environments. Prosperity and a clean environment go hand in hand.

Overpopulation is another boogeyman. Sorry catastrophizers. The UN now projects the global human population will plateau naturally at about 9-10 billion. Turns out, as societies get richer, they have less babies.

So those who think the world is getting worse are objectively wrong.

Why should you be a Rational Optimist?

Becoming a Rational Optimist is good for your mental and physical health, wealth, family, and country, and you shouldn’t feel guilty or naïve about it.First, think about how so many became so pessimistic in the first place.A common explanation is evolution. Pessimists are more attuned to...

www.rationaloptimistsociety.com

True or false? I know why the alarmists cry disaster, they want big money to flow their way to address calamities that they aren't going to fix. But I'm not sure I see the other side getting richer by denying the catastrophic forecasts, moreso than the alarmists and their politicos. Why should we have to pay trillions for unproven solutions? So far, all I've seen is a lotta money going into somebody's pocket with little or no positive change.

This is an excellent website. I did sign up for updates. Here is an encouraging statistic that I am reading about there.

The earth is getting greener​

Earth has more trees than 35 years ago. America has more forestland than 100 years ago, according to the US Department of Agriculture.



Why? One, carbon dioxide is fertilizer. Two, we produce more food on less land than ever before, giving forests plenty of room to regrow.



Agriculture was by far the biggest cause of deforestation. But since the 1960s, global grain production has skyrocketed 250%, while land used to grow it has barely changed.

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Why is no one telling you this? Discover data that shows why you should be a Rational Optimist.

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[Oddball]

Optimism is a voice crying in the wilderness.

Because being a dour, complainy pants doesn't take any effort.

 

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The good news is that the individual can do an end run around those and just go for the brass ring. Of course, this requires a spirit of individualism.

JMO, but I believe there are places where an end run is either too expensive, too long to accomplish, and pretty close to impossible. Consider:

“America won’t have a biotech industry in five years if this continues…”​

That’s what one CEO in San Francisco’s “biotech bay” told us.

He said China is rapidly pulling ahead of America in the race to create the next generation of world-class drugs.

US regulations have made it slow and expensive to turn science into actual medicine. The cost of developing a new drug doubles about every nine years. Today it’ll set you back $2.5 billion and take over a decade to get a new drug on pharmacy shelves.

In China a new drug can go from lab to first human clinical trials in six to nine months, versus five years in the US.

And if you think China is just pumping out cheap, generic knock-offs, think again.

Pfizer recently agreed to pay $1.25 billion to license an experimental cancer drug from a Chinese biotech company. This is a direct replacement for Merck’s Keytruda, the world’s best-selling medicine… at half the cost of developing a drug in the US.

The CEO thinks 70% of US biotechs will go bust in the coming years unless regulations change.

We must defeat B.A.N.A.N.A.

Time to break the rules

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[Woodznutz]

JMO, but I believe there are places where an end run is either too expensive, too long to accomplish, and pretty close to impossible. Consider:

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“America won’t have a biotech industry in five years if this continues…”​

That’s what one CEO in San Francisco’s “biotech bay” told us.

He said China is rapidly pulling ahead of America in the race to create the next generation of world-class drugs.

US regulations have made it slow and expensive to turn science into actual medicine. The cost of developing a new drug doubles about every nine years. Today it’ll set you back $2.5 billion and take over a decade to get a new drug on pharmacy shelves.

In China a new drug can go from lab to first human clinical trials in six to nine months, versus five years in the US.

And if you think China is just pumping out cheap, generic knock-offs, think again.

Pfizer recently agreed to pay $1.25 billion to license an experimental cancer drug from a Chinese biotech company. This is a direct replacement for Merck’s Keytruda, the world’s best-selling medicine… at half the cost of developing a drug in the US.

The CEO thinks 70% of US biotechs will go bust in the coming years unless regulations change.

We must defeat B.A.N.A.N.A.

Time to break the rules

www.rationaloptimistsociety.com

We can do an end run around that industry by taking better care of our health.

 

[task0778]

We can do an end run around that industry by taking better care of our health.

Some of us can but most of us won't. That isn't my idea of an end run, which is finding ways to get around stupid regulations to start up an enterprise. I think we can thank the democrats for creating so many barriers to progress and innovation. In way too many cases, big gov't IS the problem.

 

[Woodznutz]

Some of us can but most of us won't.

True. There's something terribly wrong with us.

 

[flack]

The world is changing faster than most people can comprehend. These people will be left behind.