Bow Your Head For Thomas Malthus

[PoliticalChic]

I'd like to take this opportunity to offer condolence to all those who still cling to the "Global Warming Movement," variously known as "The Watermelon Movement- Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside,"...and the "Chicken-Little Movement: Run For Your Lives."

It was on this day, in 1834, that the patron saint of the movement passed on to his reward....


December 29th, 1834 Thomas Robert Malthus died.




1. The godfather of hand-wringing environmentalism, Thomas 'Chicken-Little' Malthus is simply ground-floor claptrap.

a. Malthus originated the view that the food production of the world would increase arithmetically (1-2-3-…), while the human population would increase geometrically (1-2-4-8…).
Conclusion: mass starvation and epidemics. Sounds ‘environmental’ already, doesn’t it?

b. Malthus passed on in1834- yet his views continue in the hearts and minds of Progressives, who have expanded the vision to pollution and environmental damage.

c. The fact is, Malthus has been proven wrong over and over, based on agricultural advances, and technological innovation.
Kind of like the Global Warming Movement, which hasn't been able to point to any warming in neigh on 20 years.....
"A new record ‘Pause’: No global warming for 18 years 8 months!"
A new record ‘Pause’: No global warming for 18 years 8 months! - Climate Dispatch


2. "In spite of the serious errors in Malthus, we have witnessed in the last decade an outburst of "neo-Malthusianism," a new widespread fear, sometimes verging on hysteria, about a world "population explosion." Paul Erlich, professor of biology at Stanford University, in a book entitled The Population Bomb, warns us that we are all doomed if we do not control population growth."
Hazlitt, "The Conquest of Poverty," p.27.



Did I mention that this is another Liberal, Progressive, Democrat myth?


3. Let's remind all that Malthusians occupy the highest seats in Democrat government: Paul Ehrlich's co-author was chosen by Barack Obama as his 'science czar.'
Now....if Malthus has been proven wrong, what does it say about Ehrlich and Holdren who are still pushing solutions to imaginary problems?


And, more to the point, what does it say about our petit mal President, who appointed John Holdren......

...and about brain-dead voters who elected them???


BTW.....overpopulation?
Yup.

Another myth, like Global Warming

 

[Pete7469]

Speaking of hokey moonbat prophets, remember "Peak Oil"?

 

[Steven_R]

 

[ScienceRocks]

So you think 9 billion people by 2050 isn't over populated?

 

[PoliticalChic]

So you think 9 billion people by 2050 isn't over populated?

Hey...it's my pal Matthew the Moron!
The least educated make-believe science wonk on the board!

Can I just call you Moron, y'know...'cause we're pals?



You are clueless about the Earth.....clueless.

You probably believe there's Global Warming
(Cue
Toccata and Fugue in D minor)



Ready, Moron?
Take notes:

1. "The entire world population could fit in the state of Texas and it’d only have the population density of New York City!

There are 6.8 billion people on Earth. Calculations show that if we wanted to make everyone in Earth live on a space that had the same population density as New York City, we could fit everyone in about 666,265 square kilometers, which is less than the size of Texas!.


Not only does that leave the other 49 United States open, but it leaves all the other countries clear and open, too. So, it is pretty safe to say that we have enough space, the entire world except Texas, to farm and ranch for our food supply.


2. Would water be a problem, though? It's calculated that we need 350 billion liters of water per day to properly hydrate 6.8 billion people. It seems like a lot, but the Columbia River alone could produce that amount in less than a day.

By the way, the Columbia River is the U.S.’s fourth largest river. So, again, that leaves the rest of the world’s water supply open and ready to serve. So, we’re not really overpopulated."The entire world population could fit in the state of Texas and it d only have the population density of New York City - OMG Facts - The World s 1 Fact Source


The crux of the matter is that, simply put,the world is not overpopulated.


3. The math may be over the heads of Liberals....but here itexplodes another Liberal myth:

Using the square milage for Texas: 1 square mile = 5280 x 5280 square feet = 27,878,400 square feet. So 268,581 square miles = 7,487,608,550,400.

For simplicity say 7.5 x 10^12. That divided by 7 x 10^9 is indeedover 1000 square feet per person.So if we made one giant one-story compound over Texas, land, water, and all, we would each get a 1,000 square foot unit.


4. In 1984,it was proven by the economist Thomas Sowell that the entire world population (4.4 billion at the time) could live comfortably in the state of Texas. He wrote:
“Every human being on the face of the Earth could be housed in the state of Texas in one-story, single-family homes,each with a front and a back yard.A family of four would thus have 6,800 square feet- about the size of the typical middle-class American home with front and backyards.” According to more recent research on the topic, all of the world’s 1997 population (5.84 billion) could fit on the small Island of Bali in Indonesia.


....if we assume a world population of 6.7 billion, all the people in the world could fit into Texas and occupy an area of ~1,118 sq. ft. each.
The entire world population can fit into the state of Texas - snopes.com




For a family of four, that means a residence of some 4500 square feet....which is more than most living in the socialist haven known as the EU.


Hand-wringers unite!

Oh...wait....they already did....in the Liberals/Democrat Party....and Matthew the Moron.



As I leave, to thunderous applause....

 

[Old Rocks]

Ol' PC stinking up the board with cut and paste nonsense again. You go ahead and fantasize about living like that. The rest of us would regard that as a living hell. You ignore so many of the necessities that your whole post is a peice of idiocy.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Ol' PC stinking up the board with cut and paste nonsense again. You go ahead and fantasize about living like that. The rest of us would regard that as a living hell. You ignore so many of the necessities that your whole post is a peice of idiocy.

Still can't find a single tiny error in my posts?

What's your gripe....I did offer you condolences for both the loss of your patron saint, and for your loss of grey matter.

Malthus was wrong
There is no global warming
And the Earth isn't overpopulated....and won't be.

On the bright side...you are the poster child for "reliable Democrat voter."

 

[Steven_R]

You obviously haven't read Malthus. What he posited was that when population got to the point where the Earth (or localized regions) could no longer support an increase in population equilibrium would be reached via mass starvations and pandemics. Where he missed the boat was in dying a century before the Green Revolution allowed for increases in agricultural output, rapid international trade in huge amounts of foodstuffs, and medical advances via things like antibiotics. He can be forgiven that lack of vision considering he died a century before those realities existed, but mass starvations and epidemics are a reality, even now, especially considering how packed populations are in cities.

 

[peach174]

Yes it seems that all of the environmentalists leave out our technological advances.
Doing so gives them the doom and gloom needed.

 

[Moonglow]

Yes it seems that all of the environmentalists leave out our technological advances.
Doing so gives them the doom and gloom needed.

So much so you'd think they were conservatives.....

 

[PoliticalChic]

You obviously haven't read Malthus. What he posited was that when population got to the point where the Earth (or localized regions) could no longer support an increase in population equilibrium would be reached via mass starvations and pandemics. Where he missed the boat was in dying a century before the Green Revolution allowed for increases in agricultural output, rapid international trade in huge amounts of foodstuffs, and medical advances via things like antibiotics. He can be forgiven that lack of vision considering he died a century before those realities existed, but mass starvations and epidemics are a reality, even now, especially considering how packed populations are in cities.

1. Seems you never tire of being wrong.
"His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible.[4] He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".[5] As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour.[6]"
Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


2. Nor do you evince the ability to comprehend a thread to which you voluntarily subscribe.
I used Malthus simply as a progenitor....
Now only was Malthus wrong, but the very same "hand-wringing ambassadors of catastrophe just beyond the horizon" survive in the form of Liberals, Progressives, Democrats today.
"Flashback 1989: UN issues 10-year ‘global warming’ tipping point"
Flashback 1989: UN issues 10-year 'global warming' tipping point



Ehrlich, Holdren, and Obama are prominent examples today.



In short.....it's time for you recognize that I am never wrong.

Wise up.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Yes it seems that all of the environmentalists leave out our technological advances.
Doing so gives them the doom and gloom needed.

"The temperature of the planet has increased about one degree Fahrenheit in the last century. So imagine a summer afternoon when it’s 63 degrees and the next thing you know it’s …64 degrees! Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Run for your lives, everybody! Women and children first! Where’s FEMA, dammit?"
Coulter

 

[PoliticalChic]

Yes it seems that all of the environmentalists leave out our technological advances.
Doing so gives them the doom and gloom needed.

So much so you'd think they were conservatives.....

The difference is that the warning of conservatives do no center on imaginary dangers....e.g., global warming.

Case in point....the early warnings vis-a-vis Barack Hussein Obama.

And as a result of folks like you ignoring same, I can point to literally dozens of blunders, errors, and mismanagement.
"Congress has now cleared the way for federal debt to pass $20 trillion by the end of the president’s second term. President Obama said the new budget deal will be paid for in a “balanced” and “responsible” way, but on the day the deal was signed, the federal debt jumped $339 billion—a third of a trillion dollars in one day."
Societywatch

 

[PoliticalChic]

And this echo of Thomas Malthus:

1. In the 1970’s, Paul Ehrlich wrote the bestselling book “The Population Bomb,” predicting a global famine and warning that entire nations would cease to exist by the end of the twentieth century- among them England. … .....In 2001- despite the perplexing persistent existence of England- the Sierra Club listed Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” as among is books recommended by Sierra readers.

 

[Steven_R]

Did you actually read Malthus' works or did you just grab some cherry picked quotes off of some website?

Try reading the original materials on any of your subjects some time. It's kind of fun to read the source materials for yourself and then see how they are filtered into websites that only agree with positions you already have. Sometimes it's even possible to amend your own personal philosophies when you come across a new idea.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Did you actually read Malthus' works or did you just grab some cherry picked quotes off of some website?

Try reading the original materials on any of your subjects some time. It's kind of fun to read the source materials for yourself and then see how they are filtered into websites that only agree with positions you already have. Sometimes it's even possible to amend your own personal philosophies when you come across a new idea.

I used Malthus simply as a progenitor....
Now only was Malthus wrong, but the very same "hand-wringing ambassadors of catastrophe just beyond the horizon" survive in the form of Liberals, Progressives, Democrats today.
"Flashback 1989: UN issues 10-year ‘global warming’ tipping point"
Flashback 1989: UN issues 10-year 'global warming' tipping point



Ehrlich, Holdren, and Obama are prominent examples today.



In short.....it's time for you recognize that I am never wrong.

 

[Steven_R]

Did you actually read Malthus' works or did you just grab some cherry picked quotes off of some website?

Try reading the original materials on any of your subjects some time. It's kind of fun to read the source materials for yourself and then see how they are filtered into websites that only agree with positions you already have. Sometimes it's even possible to amend your own personal philosophies when you come across a new idea.

I used Malthus simply as a progenitor....
Now only was Malthus wrong, but the very same "hand-wringing ambassadors of catastrophe just beyond the horizon" survive in the form of Liberals, Progressives, Democrats today.
"Flashback 1989: UN issues 10-year ‘global warming’ tipping point"
Flashback 1989: UN issues 10-year 'global warming' tipping point



Ehrlich, Holdren, and Obama are prominent examples today.



In short.....it's time for you recognize that I am never wrong.

Don't ever change.

 

[koshergrl]

So you think 9 billion people by 2050 isn't over populated?

Nope. 18 billion people wouldn't be overpopulated. However many we are, we are just enough. The 'overpopulation' spasm is just another word for "let's kill those people over there, cuz there are too many of us, and by us, I mean them."