Thread: Overpopulation....a threat or a myth?

Overpopulation is a problem, for sure. However methods to CONTROL population are even worse, they simply do not work.

I am a great believer in the idea that people should be left to it, and events will occur that wipe people out. That's how it's meant to be.

Originally Posted by gregs656

I am a great believer in the idea that people should be left to it, and events will occur that wipe people out. That's how it's meant to be.

More than 200 years later and there's still a place for Malthus' theory. War, famine, disease -- it's nature's way of the cull. War: we have the potential to wipe out billions. Famine: more than ever we debate the state of our resources on earth. Disease: epidemics are common place, pandemics less so, but they happen and, according to Malthus, they will always happen as part of a system to keep numbers in check.

Funny how an economist played a major part in biological sciences as we know it today.