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That said, the policy is without a doubt far more Malthusian than it is Marxist.

Even if the birth rate fell flat today (and as you noted, the opposite is happening), can you honestly predict any future for Egypt other than Malthusian failure?

Surely the one child policy is more Malthusian than anything else, and Malthus was very far from communist.

There's a heck of a lot of muddling through between going to the stars and a continuous Malthusian crisis.

It also depends on whether there are malthusian limits applicable specifically to the population that is growing.

In either case, eliminating the malthusian constraints on housing are a solution to the problem.

The article lost me immediately when it started mentioning food production in Malthusian terms.

I thought that debate was over a hundred years ago, together with all the Malthusian doomsday predictions.

Even with all Malthusian predictions aside, humanity's existence is up against a ticking clock whose hands we can't even see.

I can't say that some sort of Malthusian equilibrium is impossible, only that it seems unlikely.

Man, that would be an awfully nice way to avoid malthusian catastrophe.

Both were, paradoxically, caused by belief systems grounded in Malthusian predictions.

If history has taught one lesson, it's "Never underestimate the pace of technological change." There have been Malthusian predictions before and there will be again.

To address the Malthusian argument: could we alter our behaviors to reduce the birth rate to mitigate the population growth caused by "slaying the dragon"?

"Again and again, time has proven the Malthusian pessimists wrong."

Anyway, malthusian apocalyptic predictions are fun, but one should not forget that just because they were wrong once it doesn't mean they will be wrong each time, we don't have "father God" nor "mother Nature" to cover our asses anymore.

Malthusian pessimists were wrong, sorry.

We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist.

(Actually, if we're assuming perfect politics, this is utterly irrelevant - there is far more food produced than necessary to feed everyone, after all.) Dislocation from changes in agricultural productivity are one-time costs, Malthusian-style; and can be offset by better farming.