Word: malthusians
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...attack cancer. In the future, it may produce vaccines against hepatitis and malaria; miracle products like low-calorie sugar; hardy self-fertilizing food crops that could usher in a new "green revolution"; fuels, plastics and other industrial chemicals, out of civilization's wastes; mining and refining processes to relieve Malthusian anxieties about a future without sufficient raw materials...
...tend to think of them as Malthusian disasters," Eberstadt says, but he adds that "all you have to do is look at Soviet collectivization or the Biafran disaster or Uganda." You cannot divorce the two, he maintains, and his recent experiences in Thailand and Cambodia reinforce his belief...
...mostly in their urban slums and shantytowns. Mexico City, already crowded with more than 10 million people, will swell to more than 31 million people; Calcutta will teem with nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing illness and misery may slow and alter the trend...
From that innocent start, the controversy has mushroomed in unending Malthusian cycles to the point where today two Quincy House juniors face grand jury indictments on felony charges that could bring them up to five years apiece in prison...
...Galbraith says, is the true nature of the "equilibrium of poverty." He claimed that in the U.S., income can be increased simply by a little macroeconomic maneuvering, and most of the time each individual can boost his own economic status if he so wishes. In places like India, however, Malthusian forces keep the poor poor. Growing population and the overwhelming pressure of current needs swamp small increases in national product. The models of economic growth taught to eager American college students do not apply to a country with hordes of people on the edge of subsistence. Centuries of poverty have...