Posted on 05/23/2014 10:28:47 AM PDT by Morgana
His delusional rantings were largely responsible for one of the left's modern-day boogermen, genetically modified organisms. The horror....
The really sick thing is that taxpayers’ money supports this asshat loser “professor”.
I thought we already pondered this back a while ago...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4
Not exactly. Malthus was more or less correct for the pre-industrial world. There were repeated cycles of rapid population growth followed by contraction due to war, famine and pestilence.
The history of China being a prime example. For several thousand years, each period of a change of the heavenly mandate resulted in a decline in population by anything from 25% to 75%.
Malthus, writing at the very beginning of the Industrial Revolution, can be (or should be) forgiven for not realizing how drastically the increase in human productivity would impact the factors he analyzed.
He also did not foresee the effects of contraception becoming effective and widespread, and their increased use as people, particularly women, became more educated and wealthy. Why should he have foreseen this? In his world, the wealthy and educated still had more children than the lower classes, or at least more who survived.
Wow, didn’t know this guy was still around. Still making the same predictions too - wrong since 1970, that’s quite a track record!
I forgive him because of his position in time. But there is no excuse for the Left still following a vision that has proven itself wrong.
What's he talking to us for?
Why doesn't he go preach baby-killing where the people are having the most babies?
He’s still alive? I thought he died years ago in that Population Bomb thingy he wrote about.
Ehrlich’s not like a stopped clock, he IS a stopped clock.
Stopped sometime in 1968 & never moved forward. Just another aging grey ponytailed lefty. Renews his subscription to The Nation every year, gnaws stale granola while cursing Americans’ materialistic indifference to the need for violent revolution, while waiting to be turned into postmortal compost. A most happy man.
Soylent Green is People!
Two cannibals are eating a clown.
The first cannibal turns to the second cannibal and says, “does this taste funny?”
Thank you, thank you. I am here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
Fair enough. I quite agree.
Just get tired of people blaming Dr. Malthus for making observations and predictions that were entirely correct given the information he had available.
For people to believe otherwise, at the time, required an unrealistic faith in the ability of human reason to deal with such issues as they came up.
As it turned out, the coldly realistic Malthus was wrong, and the unrealistic optimists were proven right, in general.
So far.
Of course. Decadent cultures descend until they get to the intersection of Cannibal Street and Human Sacrifice Blvd.
Are we there yet?
Yes, as dinner...but does liberals taste like chicken?
We have 7 billion now with 1 billion in the Americas, 1 billion in Europe and Russia, 1 billion in Africa, and 4 billion in Asia.
By 2050 Africa will as a second billion and Asia a 5th billion for a 9 billion total.
By 2100 Africa will add a 3rd and 4th billion for 11 billion total.
That's where it tops out, so say the demographers.
by 2050/2100 we will have imported a billion from Africa and Asia probably, mostly Muslims.
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