Abstract
Most environmentalists champion the idea that spaceship Earth has finite and nonrenewable resources. The exponential increase in population suggests that nonrenewable resources should become depleted and hence more valuable on the open market. Historically however, the open market shows that nonrenewable resources actually have become more abundant and cheaper. A bet between Paul Ehrlich, an ecologist, and Julian Simon, an economist, rekindles a debate on the future of world resources. By posing as either doomsters (Ehrlich's view) or boomsters (Simon's view), students can reenact this debate and find their own answers to the future of world resources.
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