Ok,
Current trends are already showing Malthus to be wrong, both in population growth and in food producution. Produce per acre is up and population growth is down. The only place population is a real problem is in undeveloped countries and that is a self-solving problem.
And to borrow a quote from myself from another post...
Here's an interesting article relating to scientific predictions about the future and how wrong that can be and how wrong the consistently are.
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http://www.reason.com/rb/rb020404.shtml
Ronald Bailey
I am testifying at an oversight hearing before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on "The Impact of Science on Public Policy" today, Feb. 4, 2004. I was asked to submit testimony about how and why environmental predictions have gone wrong. What follows is the written version of my testimony. (I get a whole five minutes to speak.)
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Enjoy