
228 - The uncomfortable reality of our energy future
The David McWilliams Podcast
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Malthus and the Green Revolution
Malthus was an anglican priest and a brainy fellow from the late eighteenth century, early ninetyen yers. He wrote about how countries would reach malthusian moments where the human population just got so big that it could not feed itself. And what he said was that these famines will cause humans to change their behaviour. So we stopped having children after Ireland's famine in 1800s. We actually changed our behaviour as part of natural selection. The basis of modern biology stems from economic observations - which is why darwin borrows from althus malthus. But seon doomberg appears as a chicken on my zoomed-in TV show 'Doom
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