Sunday, November 06, 2005

Somebody should do a better one.
What does Thomas Malthus have to do with anything you might ask? Oh, only that he took an interest in pointing out the limits to the infinte growth of population (arising from ever increasing food supply, arising from an ever increasing need to produce more stuff, arising from an ever increasing debt to the bankmasters of the world - though I dont know if he studied it from those angles). So anyway he was saying basically that one day our population would outgrow our food supply. Thinking about peak oil and how that energy source effectively allowed us to continue increasing our food output, and how soon that increase may turn into a decline, and the resulting population overshoot which could be observed, I got thinking about old Malthus. And so I decided to pay some respect.
Thomas Malthus has a Posse.