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If Malthus is wrong, then why is it necessary to prove him wrong again and again, every decade and every century?

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Published:
4/7/2008 / 9am

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  1. Jeremy 04.07.08 / 9pm

    @Gordeaux -
    You’re not wrong Gordon. Yeast has it lucky; it doesn’t have little budding geniuses who stave off the evil day for a few generations.

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  2. Gordeaux 04.07.08 / 4pm

    Short answer? Because for all our enormous achievements as human beings, on some level we’ve barely evolved past yeast.

    What’s the first thing yeast does when given a salutary environment? The population expands past carrying capacity until the environment is too befouled and the resources too exhausted to support the population — which crashes.

    Our history has been one long struggle to evade carrying capacity… but then we expand past it… hence our need to disprove Malthus… oh, about generationally, these days.

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