The Return of Malthus?
The David McWilliams Podcast
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The Return to Gya by Thomas Malthus
Scientist James lovelock was asked by nassa to model how humans might live on mars, or any other planet. He said the only way to look at that was to look at earth and how the earth works. The essential idea of all these is that the world has a finite set of resources. And into this finite set ofresources is crushing the demands, or requirements, or aspirations of seven to seven a half billion consumers. So so it's no longer beng a, just a general punter you've got to be consumer and consumed stuff.
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