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Video | Energy & Natural Resources

Dead Wrong: Resource Scarcity or Abundance?

The world population is at 7.7 billion people and counting. More people means more consumption, so resources are getting scarcer, and costlier, by the day. Dead Wrong.

Johan Norberg — Mar 20, 2019

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    Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the author of, "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future."

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