The Malthusian Population Theory and Criticisms

Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus thought people should actively slow down the growth of the population before natural disasters, epidemics, and war wipes out the population. He was concerned because he thought there will eventually be more people than food.

Larry's Take on World Population

How realistic is the Population Bomb scenario painted by environmental extremists? The available evidence supports the Demographic Transition model, more than the Malthusian dystopian model.

Will Malthus Always be Wrong or Is a Food Crisis Inevitable?

Why Population Growth is Not a Big World Problem

I am probably going to get myself into trouble here but I am a firm believer that all the talk about world over population is a bit hysterical, and really is not a threat at all. It seems to be almost a maxim that the worlds plight is because there...

Ebenezer Scrooge as the Epitome of Liberalism, not Conservatism

When the word “Scrooge” comes to mind, the usual and naturally related epithets do include: miser, hoarder, skinflint, misanthrope, etc.   The word “liberal” just doesn’t occur in such a logical list, which, from a certain educated point...

The World Is Not Too Crowded

People love to panic. The millennium bug, SARS, HN51, the apocalypse, asteroids, GM food, grey goo – you name it and someone somewhere is chomping down on their fingernails just thinking about it. But if there is one thing that people love to...

Be afraid. The Neo- Malthusians are among us!

  Do you find social and environmental issues more and more complicated these days? It use to be that if you threw the content of your ashtray out by the passenger window of your car, you were a jerk and that was that, the rest of us were okay...

The Story of a Death Foretold

Cannibalism of Autumn Some historians theorize that warfare of the 20th century had a singular cause. Thus, these collective epochal conflicts fell under the nom de plume, the Long War. Like earlier...

Eugenics is not dead

Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by controlling reproduction. The word was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton believed that the proper...

Gattaca The Movie - Eugenics in a near future

"The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters ... We must ask ourselves, what have we done wrong? I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost universal and is very deep in...