Saul Zimet

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Hang On, Are There ANY Lost Minerals?

2 months ago | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet |Ed Conway

Summary: Despite widespread belief that humanity has exhausted certain natural materials, finding examples of fully depleted materials has proven impossible. While some resources, like malachite, may be harder to find or more regulated, they are not truly extinct. Even materials rumored to be depleted remain available on the market if you know where to look. This challenges the narrative of irreversible material loss.
Waymo Drivers Are Way Safer (10x) Than Humans

Jan 7, 2025 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet |Gale Pooley

Summary: Self-driving cars are revolutionizing road safety. Swiss Re’s analysis of 25.3 million autonomous miles driven by Waymo highlights a dramatic improvement, with a massive reduction in property damage claims and an even bigger reduction in bodily injury claims compared to human drivers. By leveraging Wright’s Law, Waymo’s learning curve enhances safety and paves the way for scalable technological growth in autonomous transportation.
Thanksgiving Dinner Will Be 8.8 Percent Cheaper This Year

Nov 21, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet |Gale Pooley

Summary: There has been a remarkable decrease in the “time price” of a Thanksgiving dinner over the past 38 years, despite nominal cost increases. Thanks to rising wages and innovation, the time required for a blue-collar worker to afford the meal dropped significantly, making food much more abundant. Population growth and human knowledge drive resource abundance, allowing for greater prosperity and efficiency in providing for more people.
We’re All Billionaires Now (Thanks to New Knowledge)

Nov 7, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet |Gale Pooley

Summary: Modern society enjoys immense wealth through access to products created with high fixed costs but low marginal costs, thanks to mass markets. By leveraging technology and innovation, products from smartphones to streaming music and affordable medicine provide people with benefits once unimaginable. This abundance illustrates capitalism’s ability to generate shared prosperity, contrary to the views of critics who focus solely on the relative distribution of wealth. Sen.
The Horrors of Pre-Industrial Farming

Oct 17, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet |Chelsea Follett

Summary: The realities of preindustrial farming were far harsher than the romanticized vision of peaceful rural life often imagined today.
How New Technology Will Help Save Earth from Asteroids

Oct 7, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet

“Astronomers have been crying out for a better instrument to scan the stars to find these asteroids before they find us. Fortunately, they’re about to get two. The first is Nasa’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor, or NEO Surveyor, mission. It’s essentially a sniper that is going to be hidden in outer space. Within 10 years of being launched, it will find 90% or more of those city-killer asteroids that have yet to be found by conventional means…It is to be launched sometime in the next five years.
"Extinct" Guam Kingfisher Takes Flight Again After Nearly 40 Years

Oct 4, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet

“The sihek (Todiramphus cinnamominus) was once endemic to the forests of Guam, an island in the western Pacific that is today a U.S. territory. The accidental introduction of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) in the 1940s devastated the island’s native wildlife, including many local birds whose eggs were eaten by the snakes. A rescue operation in the 1980s brought 29 birds into captivity.
Smithian Insights into Shrinking Global Inequality

Oct 1, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet |Adam Smith |Chelsea Follett

Summary: Human progress has lifted living standards worldwide, with people living longer, becoming wealthier, and enjoying greater political freedom. Contrary to popular belief, this progress has been widely shared, with globalization and market liberalization raising living standards and reducing overall inequality.
The Startup Using Balloons to Cool the Planet

Sep 27, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet

“At the time of writing, Make Sunsets has deployed 82 balloons, offsetting the warming caused by 53,800 tons of CO2 (the world emits about 37 billion tons of CO2 annually). It has more than 500 customers, including Casey Handmer, founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, a startup using tech to create natural gas from sunlight and air.”From Freethink.
Rhino Poaching Plunges in South Africa

Sep 26, 2024 | humanprogress.org | Saul Zimet

“The dehorning of rhinos in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal, has resulted in an 80% drop in poaching since the operation began in April this year, according to the organisations behind the programme.”From The Progress Playbook.