Word: malthusian
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Kemp said that the Malthusian fears of limited resources are unfounded and that they have wrongly predicted the preemption of supplies in the 1920s and 1970s. These fears, Kemp added, have led to excessive government legislation that inadvertently inhibited the growth of the economy...
...list goes on. Women poured into the legal profession only to find that Dan Quayle, Esq., had got there ahead of them, and was campaigning for Malthusian measures to shrink the profession. Or they elbowed their way into male-only clubs -- where they found the huge leather armchairs empty and the air strangely clear of cigar smoke. The men had already run off to the woods, half naked, to pound on drums with Robert...
...billion, rather than the 15 billion some demographers predict. A human race twice as numerous as it is now might be able to feed itself and avoid disastrous social, political and environmental consequences. However, at three times today's level, there would be far greater risk of a Malthusian cataclysm...
...evil is a constant presence in the human soul, it is also true that there are more souls now than ever, and by that logic both good and evil are rising on a Malthusian curve, or at any rate both good and evil may be said to be increasing in the world at the same rate as the population: 1.7% per annum...
...Halls of Fame will run out of room. Rather than add on, Malthusian economists running the Halls will unceremoniously eject previous undeserving winners. Pee Wee Reese and Al Davis will be disconsolate. Steffi Graf will defeat Boris Becker at Wimbledon, but a 12-year-old girl will foil her bid for her seventh Grand Slam. Walters will beat up Tyson, who will retire again...