>The original study and subsequent research was funded by the Club of Rome, a European organization focused on solving the larger problems facing humanity. Ah

>The original study and subsequent research was funded by the Club of Rome, a European organization focused on solving the larger problems facing humanity. Ah yes, our benevolent overlords who have selflessly offered themselves up as our technocratic central planners. Such premises should at least inspire mild curiosity or skepticism from readers. Counter point: https://www.wired.com/1997/02/the-doomslayer-2/ https://www.wired.com/1997/02/the-doomslayer-2/ >The classical case against population growth was expressed in 1798 by Thomas Malthus, the British economist and country parson who wrote in An Essay on the Principle of Population: "Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second." ... >Or so it would appear, except for the following embarrassing fact: "Population has never increased geometrically," says Simon. "It increases at all kinds of different rates historically, but however fast it increases, food increases at least as fast, if not faster. In other words, whatever the rate of population growth is, the food supply increases at an even faster rate."