Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper:How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong

In the face of today’s environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course:  to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. 

But in our summary of Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper:  How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong, Robert Bryce shows how innovation is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods.  That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.

Bryce is the acclaimed author of four previous books, including most recently Power Hungry:  The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future.  He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, healthier lives than at any time in human history.  The tools we need to save the planet aren’t to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past.  Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. 

The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus.  As this summary illustrates, this is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.