Um..
Except that Malthus made his predictions in his famous Essay of 1798 (Thanks Wikipedia), and the past 210 years have seen nothing but a larger and longer-lived population with an ever expanding food supply.

How many more centuries have to pass before this jackass is rightly consigned to the ashheap of history as a consistently wrongheaded individual? His ideas are about as accurate and relevent as the idea of phlogiston.

The great thing about human beings is that we have the minds and technology to create new methods and use resources in new ways to avoid disaster. (Or do you still light your lamps with whale oil?)

Malthus was wrong, and has ALWAYS been wrong. Just because he seems logical to those who hate thinking for themselves doesn't make him correct.
(not here, Sat 19 Apr 2008, 18:03, Reply)