Editing Matt Ridley (section)

===Journalism===
Ridley joined ''[[The Economist]]'' in 1984, first working as a science editor until 1987, then as [[Washington, D.C.]], correspondent from 1987 to 1989 and as American editor from 1990 to 1992.<ref>''Debrett's People of Today 2007'', p. 1406.</ref><ref name="matt-cv">{{cite web |last=Ridley |first=Matt |title=Matt Ridley's C.V. |url=http://www.mattridley.co.uk/index.html |access-date=4 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706164710/http://www.mattridley.co.uk/index.html |archive-date=6 July 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a columnist for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' and an editor of ''The Best American Science Writing 2002''.<ref name="CSHLbio">{{cite web |url=http://library.cshl.edu/oralhistory/speaker/matt-ridley/ |title=Matt Ridley – Biography |work=CSH Oral History Collection |publisher=[[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]] |date=2012 |access-date=2015-10-31}}</ref>

From 2010 to 2013, Ridley wrote the weekly "Mind and Matter" column for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', which "explores the science of human nature and its implications".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-lifestyle-arts-entertainment.html |title=Mind and Matter column |publisher=Online.wsj.com |access-date=6 December 2012}}</ref>

Since 2013, Ridley has written a weekly column for ''[[The Times]]'' on science, the environment, and economics.<ref name=FisherRidley2013>{{cite journal |last1=Fisher |first1=S. E. |author-link1=Simon Fisher |last2=Ridley |first2=M. |title=Culture, Genes, and the Human Revolution |journal=Science |volume=340 |issue=6135 |year=2013 |pages=929–30 |pmid=23704558 |doi=10.1126/science.1236171 |bibcode=2013Sci...340..929F|s2cid=39849683 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Matt-Ridley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620085657/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Matt-Ridley |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 June 2013 |title=Matt Ridley |department=Times Journalist |work=[[The Times]] |access-date=2015-10-31}}</ref>

Ridley wrote the majority of the main article of the August 2017 edition of ''[[BBC Focus]]'' magazine.<ref>{{ISSN|0966-4270}}, #311</ref> The article explains his scepticism regarding [[resource depletion]], challenging the widespread belief that resource depletion is an important issue. He cites various previous resource scares as his evidence.