Matt Ridley
Good news, everybody. The ozone layer is probably going to heal. And that’s not all: by the time my (future) grandchildren grow up in the late 2050s, the world could be greener, healthier, cleaner, kinder, more peaceful and more equal – if we allow it. Why do I think this, when activists are telling […]
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
Matt Ridley
Little of this made the news, because good news is no news My article from The Spectator: Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent […]
Matt Ridley
Courage and commerce — which did more to enrich humanity My Times column on the bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo: In Waterloo week, I confess I am a sucker for tales of military glory. I cannot get enough of the closing of the doors of Hougoumont, the charge of the Scots Greys, Wellington’s […]
Matt Ridley
It’s worked elsewhere My recent Times column was on the stagnation of European economic growth rates: The financial crisis was supposed to have discredited the “Anglo-Saxon” model of economic management as surely as the fall of the Berlin wall discredited communism. Yet last week’s numbers on economic growth show emphatically the opposite. The British economy is […]
Matt Ridley
My latest Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal: The island of Gaua, part of Vanuatu in the Pacific, is just 13 miles across, yet it has five distinct native languages. Papua New Guinea, an area only slightly bigger than Texas, has 800 languages, some spoken by just a few thousand people. “Wired […]
Matt Ridley
3D printing may one day work for stem-cell-derived kidneys and concrete building parts My l atest Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal is on 3D printing: Serendipity works in curious ways. Earlier this month, on the day before I read news of the successful implanting of a synthetic windpipe grown with a […]
