Word: malthusian
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...objective is to "destroy credibility of the Malthusian argument of over-population," Gelber said...
...scarce on the Dust Bowl plains. They are being stalked here in Colorado's Piceance Basin and other states because they have been adjudged a peril to the Western range. Since 1971, when free-roaming horses were put under tight federal protection, they have been multiplying with Malthusian consequences, gobbling up valuable sheep and cattle forage and leaving the range threadbare. Complains Colorado Rancher Dean Burke: "The wild horse is a pest. He has been eating us out of house and home...
...POPULATION BOMB in 1968 predicted a severe world-wide crisis sometime during 1970-1985 because of overpopulation. But despite many famines and much suffering in the last decade, Paul Ehrlich has thus far been wrong, and few economists expect such a crisis in the next decade. His Malthusian expectations of too little food for too many people are valid; population growth--without agricultural innovations would ultimately outstrip food supply. Maybe the world squeaked by because Ehrlich's prophecies helped warn nations to limit their ranks; and maybe the world's response to Ehrlich's dire forebodings improved conditions--but probably...
...that trusts him more. He has a computer-driven fund raising organization, the Congressional Club, which has raised millions of dollars for Helms and dozens of other conservative candidates. He has a born politician's ease with a crowd, a saint's generosity toward individuals in distress?and a Malthusian indifference to human suffering on a larger scale. He is, in short, in the great tradition of amiable, infuriating, pious, callous, dangerous, ordinary and compelling characters who from time to time emerge to animate American politics...
With this broad outlook, all men are latent billionaires because of world resources and advanced technology. The problem is allocation of this wealth. Fuller feels current institutions prevent people from living like kings. He believes the establishment's faith in the Malthusian theory of searcity has led to wars and wasteful stockpiling of arms. Fuller tries to dispatch these doomsday beliefs so that mankind will work together. If fear of poverty is dispelled, cooperation and efficient coexistence are inevitable...