Optimum Population Trust

[ICantSpellDawg]

Look up Thomas Malthus and how wrong he was. The Human mind is the greatest asset we have. It literally creates wealth and sustinence seemingly out of thin air. More people are the answer, not less

[seireikhaan]

Look up Thomas Malthus and how wrong he was. The Human mind is the greatest asset we have. It literally creates wealth and sustinence seemingly out of thin air. More people are the answer, not less

Sweet, now I get to quote one of my favorite cartoons.

"Humankind can not obtain anything without first sacrificing something.
In order to obtain anything something of equal value is required."

Sure, we can turn seeds into wheat, wheat into beer, corn into oil, rocks into valuable metals. Yet there still comes a point when we must stand up to the fact that there is only so far we can stretch the limit. We've stretched it very, very far. Can we stretch it further? I honestly doubt it.

Want some proof? Go research what extensive over-agriculture has done to the top soil in the American midwest. Unless we reverse course in our agricultural practices, we shall run the soil, at least temporarily, barren.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Science got us into some of these messes, science will get us out.

[Fragony]

Look up Thomas Malthus and how wrong he was. The Human mind is the greatest asset we have. It literally creates wealth and sustinence seemingly out of thin air. More people are the answer, not less

Maybe he will be right, he didn't take improvements in agriculture into the equation and these were a major factor in the 19th century, doesn't prove his theory wrong.

[naut]

Condoms?

But seriously, there probably are way too many people, and have been for the last Century or so. Another large-scale war, famine, disease, global warming, scientific breakthrough and it'll reach equilibrium again.