Bucky Fuller spoke and wrote extensively against Malthusian doctrine. Bucky pointed out how tools, machines, and other technologies allowed us to "do more with less"...
...which process he called "ephemeralization".
Bucky was right. Malthus et al are wrong.
Math tends to ignore ideology.
The planet is not growing. There is not a 50% increase in the volume of the planet vs its volume 50 years ago.
It is finite. Stuff in it is also finite.
Most of population growth is in Africa right now, and it is getting fed with farming there. No, there was no order of magnitude jump in production of a particular seed. The growth is in how much land is producing stuff, and that happens for two reasons — synthetic fertilizer and oil.
Rock phosphate and nat gas makes fertilizer on a scale appropriate to the vast expanse of land devoted to growing food. And oil powers the tractors that get seeds planted on the 100s of thousands of acres before planting season expires. And then gets it harvested before winter rots it in the fields.
These items are finite because the planet’s size is finite.
Math doesn’t care about ideology.
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