(April 5, 2020 at 10:02 am)SUNGULA Wrote:(April 5, 2020 at 9:58 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I suppose that we could cut malthus some slack, there were facts just on the horizon that he wouldn't have available to him, or at least were less obvious to him...that are available to us.True but it's a tragedy that since other people have appealed to his flawed reasoning despite it being shown wrong over and over in concept and in practice.
Ironic, in that it was the industrial revolution which he didn't see coming.
LOL...
In practice?
Where?
Show me a single case of drastic population reduction where consumption of resource and pollution generated remained constant.
Maybe on the planet or alternate reality you came from.
It sure had never happened here.