A Malthusian catastrophe

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HR 1955 Serves Malthusian Collapse Plan

The most invidious reason that HR 1955 is being "legislated".
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i3cnhyxo7nw

Malthusian Propaganda and the Uneducated

The Malthusian framework for understanding history

Population Growth: unnatural, unnecessary, unsustainable

The modern rise in population - why?

The Malthusian Theory In A Nutshell
A human patterns assignment about Malthus. Kurtzman, Wagman and I. As per usual I did the video.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-oJc9FB2kh0

Are we now headind down the road of Malthusian Theory
Malthusian Population Theory

(1798)
Named after English economist the Reverend THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1766-1834), who believed that population would increase at a geometric rate and the food supply at an arithmetic rate.
This disharmony would lead to widespread poverty and starvation which would only be checked by natural occurrences such as disease, high infant mortality, famine, war or moral restraint.
Malthusian population theory was eventually dismissed for its pessimism and failure to take into account technological advances in agriculture and food production.
In biology, the theory asserts that the reproductive potential of virtually any organism or SPECIES greatly exceeds the earth's capacity to support all its possible offspring. Consequently, species diversity is preserved through mechanisms that keep population sizes in check, such as predation.

http://www.economyprofessor.com/economictheories/malthusian-population-theory.php

Malthusian thesis

Definition

Concept that since food production can increase at only arithmetic rate (see arithmetic progression) whereas populations tend to grow at geometric rate (see geometric progression), the number of people would increase faster than the food supply. It warns that if this growth is not checked, total population would eventually reach a resource limit (see 'Limits To Growth' Report) which would result in decimation of sections of the population by famine, disease, or war. Proposed by the UK economist and mathematician Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) in his 1797 work 'An Essay On The Principle Of Population As It Effects The Future Improvement Of Society.' It negates the belief that high birth rates add to the natural wealth of a nation, and advocates moral restraint (birth control by abstinence or late marriage) to restrict the size of families.

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/Malthusian-thesis.html
 
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The World Food Crisis and Political Malthusianism

Government failure, not overpopulation, is the cause of higher food prices
Ronald Bailey | July 8, 2008

Riots have broken out in more than a dozen countries as prices of food staples have doubled and reserves declined to their lowest levels in a generation. The world food crisis is at the top of the agenda at the Group of Eight summit meeting in Japan this week.
Is Thomas Robert Malthus right after all, that human numbers have finally overwhelmed our ability to produce food, leading inevitably to mass starvation? In 1798, Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, where he famously asserted that "population does invariably increase where there are the means of subsistence." As a consequence, some portion of mankind must forever be starving; and, further, efforts to aid the hungry will only lead to more misery, as those initially spared from famine bear too many children to feed with existing food supplies.
In subsequent editions Malthus softened his dismal conclusions and argued that "preventative checks" could avert overpopulation by reducing birth rates. Preventative checks included later marriage and abstinence, along with indulgence in "unnatural passions" and "irregular connections," by which Malthus meant prostitution, abortion, masturbation, and homosexuality.
Modern disciples of Malthus have stressed the dismal checks on population, e.g., war, pestilence, and famine.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/127428.html
 
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Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
Introduction

Malthus' Life
Malthus' Essay On Population
The Critics
Conclusions
Dates
Notes
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Malthus.htm