Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong!!!!

get over it!!!

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[AndyMFT]

Erm Malthus did take famine into account, that's kind of the point. Also what are you on about? World War 1 (20 million dead) and World War 2 (60 milion) doesn't make nearly a billion. And as for the "long-ass time, thousands and thousands, millions of years" that man has been around for? Well Homo Sapiens have only been around for 0.2 million years, not "milions". You, sir are an ill-informed, grumpy grebo.

[thetruthaboutstuff]

my numbers may be off but my point is still sound. I do some times over state numbers and for that I am sorry. ill-informed, maybe a little bit but grumpy, yes with people who are out right stupid and not willing to back off when they are called out. as for "grebo", I have looked it up and none of what I can see fits me.

[RyuDarragh]

These were noted by folks who looked at Malthus' work and realized, as early as the 1800's, that he had not considered natural population controls. These include war, famine, pestilance, etc..

[centurion180ad]

You don’t need 5 minutes to point out the clear cut failure of bigot Malthus.

You need about 5 seconds and it goes like this:

“The population of mankind behaves under the influence of exponential growth AND under exponential decay.”

Malthus left out the exponential decay component, an oversight that could not have been accidental.

[binkie93]

do you play wow?

[MrPopodom]

it's too late for famine or war to cause sufficient decrease in the global population so that it can be sustainable, the fact of the matter is, there's almost 7 billion people in the world. that number will increase geometrically. by 2050 it's predicted 12 billion will inhabit the earth, this is considering possible wars, disease or famine that could occur aswell. we don't have enough resources to sustain this number and we never will.

[frenchjd01]

What you are missing is that the entire Malthusian premise is wrong, for example currently we know that the U.S. government pays farmers not to grow and millions of pounds of food rot or wasted because of greed and poor food distribution. The argument is solely a premise for the destruction of poor and undesirables. Look at Hitler and his Ilk Stalin all fans of Malthusian and Darwinian ideas.

[claudius2u]

Hey buddy, you're onto to something! But, these elitist' math is is purposefully twisted in order to persuade silly, un-thinking masses to agree to DE-populating measures!

Texas has enough space to hold every human alive, with 31 square feet per person, leaving the entire rest of the planet to provide support.

[hyperflexed]

So am I to believe that atrocities are necessary for a stable population? I second AndyMFT on how absurd your numbers are. Please understand that the difference between 80 million and 1 billion is 3 orders of magnitude. You can't just shrug a thousandfold difference off like it was a slip of the tongue. This kind of arrogance is what causes problems in our world in the first place. Maybe you might not be so pissed about consuming less if you weren't such a worthless, fat piece of white trash.

[biped19]

Too bad for Malthus's crackpot theory that it did not account for agricultural development as well.

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

the math also doesn't take into account DEATH.

Notice how it adds numbers constantly without taking any away? if you follow their "math" carefully you'll notice that the first 8 you start with stay with you for the next 4400 years.