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And yet, the specter of a possible Malthusian catastrophe may have helped motivate us to prevent it. I don't really call that being wrong.
by ScottBurson 9y ago
And yet, the specter of a possible Malthusian catastrophe may have helped motivate us to prevent it. I don't really call that being wrong.
- bryanlarsen 9y agoThe specter of a Malthusian catastrophe was what motivated Adolf Hitler. The factors that ended up defusing the Malthusian catastrophe were not influenced by Malthus at all. We did not go about educating women because of Malthus.
- amvalo 9y agoGood Godwin.
- ionised 9y agoSimply mentioning Hitler or the Nazis is not a reason to invoke Godwin's law.
- amvalo 9y agoGodwin's law simply states that Nazis will eventually be mentioned (with probability approaching 1). Also, he's completely wrong. Hitler's reasoning was not to avoid a malthusian catastrophe. Pretty surprised people here bought that.
- philwelch 9y agoThe goal of the Nazis was to conquer eastern Europe, remove most of the existing population, and resettle it with German colonists. The rationale was to feed and support a growing population, which is an idea at least reminiscent of Malthus.
- amvalo 9y agoThe rationale was that their own ethnic group deserved to prosper at the expense of others. The idea that germany might be in danger of running out of food via population growth was not present. If by "reminiscent" you mean "has something to do with population" then sure, it's reminiscent.