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The Neo-Malthusian World of the Coronavirus

How the natural environment is a force for instability.

Mention the name “Malthus” and you are met with a storm of abuse.

  • Robert D. Kaplan
  • The National Interest

The media elite, protected from nature in their urban bubbles, never tire of pronouncing Thomas Robert Malthus’s An…

It is quite true, Malthus’s specific theory – that population increases geometrically while food supplies increase only arithmetically – never worked out, because of the…

Nevertheless, Malthus helped introduce the subject of ecosystems into contemporary political philosophy, thereby…

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