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Malthus could not have foreseen the development of the Haber-Bosch process or the green revolution.
by Paul-Craft 3y ago
Malthus could not have foreseen the development of the Haber-Bosch process or the green revolution.
- schiffern 3y agoHe literally did. Read him. Malthus foresaw and mentioned the possibility of improved farming techniques. After all, it's not like improvements in farming hadn't happened before! In reply to this predictable objection, Malthus..... well, I suppose you'll just have to read it to find out. :) https://archive.org/details/essayonprincipl00malt https://archive.org/details/essayonprincipl00malt
- toolz 3y agothank you for linking to source material, but I don't think it's very useful to reply with teasers expecting us to read a book to understand one tightly constrained topic of conversation/debate.
- Kbelicius 3y agoSomeone already answered that he in fact did foresee developments in food production but that is totally irrelevant to hist point which is: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man"