Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.
Steven PinkerClimate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.
Steven PinkerMost wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.
Steven Pinker