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by mrunkel 1724 days ago
I don't understand, can you elaborate?
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legitster 1724 days ago
Malthus wrote in the 1800s about how society was on the verge of collapse because we were all going to run out of resources.

People who take a lot of stock in these types of predictions generally cannot see the value of economic growth and try to save the world by enforcing their own set of puritanical environmental restrictions.

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korantu 1724 days ago
Not the original comment author, but will try and offer a clarification:

Malthus [1] was of opinion that humanity growth/wellbeing is bound to be curbed by wars/famines due to limits of resources.

He was mostly correct up until industrial revolution.

There are, though, people who still subscribe to Malthus idea of impending doom.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

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