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cgod  ·  4256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No Population Bomb

Badged for taking a stand against Malthusianism. I have tried to explain many, many times that the population growth curve is bending toward a level or even downward path decades hence, but not one Malthus junior will believe me. Hell they aren't even willing to look at the evidence.

The progeny of Malthus have been crying that the sky is falling for almost two centuries, but can't seem to grasp that all their tears are for naught.

Not that Malthus was a fool, he made valuable contributions to economics and his theories on population growth were plausible but wrong. I wish others would accept that a two hundred year history of failed doomsaying merited a revision in their thinking, or at least a fresh look at the evidence.