I also believe that we fail to give television the proper credit for population reduction (in the U.S. at least). Before television, there were few other "entertainments" available for the evenings. ;)
Thomas E. Potter Telephone: (713) 215-2877 Fax: (713) 215-2551 Mobile: (832) 794-0536 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craig McCluskey Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:58 PM To: Mercedes mailing list Subject: Re: [MBZ] Terminal population On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:17:39 -0500 "Potter, Tom E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was the theory of Thomas Malthus. The industrial revolution > disrupted his theory as I remember from my studies (Specifically, > mechanized farming allowed more food to be grown). That is the problem > with any equation that we develop to determine population load, we > cannot foresee what changes future technology will have on the capacity > of the Earth to sustain a population. > > http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html Yes, how wrong Malthus had it! In addition, we humans are limiting our population ourselves without having to rely on any Malthusian causes. The world population will peak out about mid-century and then drop because societies are not reproducing at replacement rate. This is already a big problem in Germany and Italy. Craig _______________________________________ For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
