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malthus: whimsey for the sullen men of property
Malthus. The theory that, essentially, the poor should not reproduce as they strain the food supply, which will be outdistanced, inevitably by population growth, leading to that final leg of human misery: famine, starvation and death. Alas, the flesh being … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Philip Hermogenes Calderon, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Robert Malthus, William Godwin, William Hazlitt
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malthus and famine: curse of the wedding ring
Do people starve simply because there are too many of us? Is famine the necessary companion of civilization? Was parson Malthus right in his grim insistence that population must necessarily outdistance food supply? Or, even worse, are the hungry dying … Continue reading
malthus: not found at the love-in
There seems to be more to famine than a mere lack of food. Hunger is always at our door, even in an era like our own. Do people starve simply because there are too many of us? Or, is famine … Continue reading
malthus: specter at the feast
Thomas Robert Malthus. Hunger is always at the door, even in an era like our own. People still die of starvation. Do people starve because there are too many of us ? Or, is famine the necessary companion, the price … Continue reading
lifeboat: someone send an SOS
Lifeboat ethics. Over the centuries people have invented countless metaphors for the earth they live upon, calling it everything from a bountiful mother to a spaceship. A relatively new phenomenon is, with regard to population growth and our ability to … Continue reading
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