The Need to Breed

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

We human beings WILL breed ourselves into extinction ,just a Thomas Malthus predicted, unless we have a nice big world war or a really virulent pandemic. World population is increasing exponentially, resources are not.

When will this happen? I really don't know.However, I'm fairly confident it will not be until after I'm dead, so the matter is academic to me, I'm rather ambivalent about the long term fate of the human race.However, I suspect our extinction will be a good thing for a great many other species.


A recent documentary series, "Life After People" claimed there would be no trace of us at all within a million years. That is a short geological time.

Season 1,episode 1, below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDbcMND7fY

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Malthus had an overly romantic view of human in my opinion.

The Reverend[1] Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 or 14 February 1766 – 23 or 29 December 1834[2]) was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography.[3][4] Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent.[5]

Malthus has become widely known for his theories about population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine and disease. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible.[6] William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet, for example, believed in the possibility of almost limitless improvement of society. In a more complex way, so did Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose notions centered on the goodness of man and the liberty of citizens bound only by the social contract—a form of popular sovereignty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus