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The New York Times wonders whether Malthus may have had a point.....? Malthus’s prediction was based on an eminently sensible premise: that the earth’s carrying capacity has a limit. On Monday, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provided a sharp-edged warning about how fast we are approaching this constraint. (...) What most stood out in the report from the panel, which gathers every few years to produce a synthesis of mainstream science’s take on climate change, was that it rolled straight into Malthus’s territory, providing its starkest warning yet about the challenge imposed by global warming on the world’s food supply. Quotes from Malthus and other thinkers on the subject of human population are on our website. populationmatters.org/making-case/quotations/
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:21:02 +0000

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