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The Return of Malthus?

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Malthusian Idea of a Monoculture

When you have a monoculture of anything, a disease hits and thit spreads throughout the whole crop. And you've nothing too to replace thi fall back on. So so that was the malthusian idea. Ad then he came up with this other interesting idea. He said, theres two checks that humans arso o this positive checks, which are the epidemic or the famine,. Which will basely just force the population down. Then he says, after that, human behaviour changes, and we have preventative checks. That's why hunter gatherers were fitter, stronger, better fed and live longer than farmers. Our idea is that the huncter

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