Review on Book 'The End of Doom'

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Nigel Lawson, Apocalypse Later; Despite an explosion in population greater than Malthus could have ever imagined, global living standards are higher than ever. Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2015
http://www.wsj.com/articles/apocalypse-later-1438039375
(book review on Ronald Bailey, The End of Doom; Environmental renewal in the twenty-first century. Manhattan: Thomas Dunne, 2015)

Quote:

"The 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment, produced an explosion of scientific discovery as men’s minds escaped from the shackles of subservience to authority, both political and ecclesiastical.

" 'Food,' he [Bailey] writes, citing statistics from the World Bank and other organizations, 'is more abundant today than ever before in history.' In the past 50 years alone, global food production has more than tripled.

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest, which is inane.
(b) Age of Enlightenment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
(1620s - 1780s; There is little consensus on the precise beginning; s to its end, most scholars use the last years of the century – often choosing the French Revolution of 1789)