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The elephant in the room is the continual neglect or the downright (intellectual) hate shown to anyone who had dared mention Malthus in the last 25-30 years (hi
by paganel 7y ago
The elephant in the room is the continual neglect or the downright (intellectual) hate shown to anyone who had dared mention Malthus in the last 25-30 years (his thoughts had a bit of intellectual resurgence in the 1970s, but that was pretty much it). It seems like in the last 2 or 3 years we have tried and tried to reach his same conclusions in very convoluted ways, ignoring his very existence.
The good thing at least is that some of us have at last reached the conclusion that some sort of planet-wide environmental growth limits have been reached, even that wasn't the case until not that long ago, when any mention of a possible limit was met with "we'll technologically surpass that, we always have".
- jstewartmobile 7y agoMalthus is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many "forbidden charts" that people can lose their jobs over these days! Outside of global warming--all we plebes get are Pinker-nuggets on how everything is just fine.
- enugu 7y agoCurious. Care to give some examples?