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henry_bone
7 months ago
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The Myth of Scarcity and Its Threats to Human Soci...
Malthusian nonsense. As societies develop and become richer, birth rates drop. Also, over time, our ability to produce more food has always risen to the challenge.
smokel
7 months ago
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You may be mixing up causation and correlation in the argument that birth rates will drop.
(See also several other comments on this topic in this thread.)
hehhehaha
7 months ago
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logistic growth in populations is a direct response against malthusian theories
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