What is relevant about these quaint socialists is precisely that they were capable of confronting head-on the purveyors of ...

In 1798, when the world’s population was approaching 1 billion and the population of the British Isles was 16 million, an Englishman named Thomas Robert Malthus made the dire prediction that, like ...

This video from the 'Foundation For Economic Education' discusses why advocates of population control keep wrongly predicting doom, from 18th Century economist Thomas Malthus to the Stanford ...

More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong predictions: continuous population growth arising from human ...

Thomas Malthus' 200-year-old argument that people are poor because they lack self-discipline continues to frame U.S. welfare policy despite substantial evidence to the contrary, say two sociologists ...

When the world population crossed the 1 billion mark, economist Thomas Malthus warned that famine was inevitable. It took humans 250,000 years to reach a population of one-half billion and only an ...

The holiday season is here, and with it a chance to read or watch Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Whether the book itself, or portrayals onscreen with Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Patrick ...

"This universe is finite. Its resources, finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist." So declares the Marvel supervillain Thanos near the end of Avengers: Infinity War, when he ...

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The Doomer David Attenborough hates humans and data. He desperately wants fewer humans and ignores data which shows how wrong his ideas are. This is a dangerous level of ignorance. This ignorance and ...