“Malthusian nonsense.”
Correcto.
Parson Malthus was WRONG then, his hatchlings are WRONG now.
Malthus has been right for most populations during most of history.
The population expands until it reaches the carrying capacity of its area, and then it stabilizes with the lowest rungs of society limited by disease, war, and starvation.
Population expansions have occurred when there are technological improvements to agricultural production (3-field rotation, importation of American food crops, double cropping of rice, Haber-Bosch production of ammonia) or when the area expands (replacement of hunter-gatherers in the the US, South Africa, Siberia, Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Australia, etc.).
“Parson Malthus was WRONG then, his hatchlings are WRONG now.”
Yes they are.
They should have studied Norman Borlaug.
“Borlaug was often called “the father of the Green Revolution”, and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.”
Borlaug developed semi-dwarf, high yield, disease resistant varieties of wheat and exported those varieties and modern rotation farming practices around the world.
For his work he received...
Nobel Peace Prize (1970)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
ForMemRS (1987)[1]
Vannevar Bush Award (2000)
Public Welfare Medal (2002)
National Medal of Science (2004)
Congressional Gold Medal (2006)
Padma Vibhushan (2006)