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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2421728" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>"A wealthy English mathematician, teacher and clergyman with a fine literary style, Malthus is known today for just one short document, the <em>Essay on Population</em>, first published in 1798 and frequently revised in the following years. He is a bit of a hero to many in the environmental movement to this day for his emphatic insistence that there are limits to growth – that population growth must lead to misery, starvation and disease when the land, the food, the fuel or the water runs out.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, the lesson most people have taken from Malthus is that you have to be cruel to be kind. This runs right through the eugenic and population movements, and is alive and well today. When I write or speak about falling child mortality in Africa today, I can be sure I will get a response along exactly these Malthusian lines: but surely it’s a bad thing if you stop poor people dying? What’s the good of bringing economic growth to Africa: they will only have more babies."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/the-misapplication-of-malthus/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>The misapplication of Malthus</strong></span></span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2421728, member: 2189"] "A wealthy English mathematician, teacher and clergyman with a fine literary style, Malthus is known today for just one short document, the [I]Essay on Population[/I], first published in 1798 and frequently revised in the following years. He is a bit of a hero to many in the environmental movement to this day for his emphatic insistence that there are limits to growth – that population growth must lead to misery, starvation and disease when the land, the food, the fuel or the water runs out. Unfortunately, the lesson most people have taken from Malthus is that you have to be cruel to be kind. This runs right through the eugenic and population movements, and is alive and well today. When I write or speak about falling child mortality in Africa today, I can be sure I will get a response along exactly these Malthusian lines: but surely it’s a bad thing if you stop poor people dying? What’s the good of bringing economic growth to Africa: they will only have more babies." [URL='http://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/the-misapplication-of-malthus/'][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff0000][B]The misapplication of Malthus[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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