Thomas Malthus and population growth | Cosmology & Astronomy | Khan Academy

I found this summary much better than crash course histories mess of an attempt. I know this was made in 2011 but right now Monaco is the most dense at around 26k ppl per sq km so I doubt Bangladesh was the most dense 7 years ago compared to Monaco and some of the island nations in Caribbean.

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if you are searching for this quote on the original essay , it is found chapter 7 page 44.

I think the underlying logic of Mathus' argument is actually sound. The amount of resources on earth is finite. But provided people continue to reproduce indefinitely, the population will grow exponentially, until it is forced to stop growing by the limit. There does exist such a limit for Earth. It's just higher than Malthus had anticipated.
The second problem with this is that people did not continue to reproduce indefinitely. Because of the industrial revolution, people urbanized rapidly and people in urban areas have incentives to produce fewer children, since in cities, children are liabilities, not assets, unlike in farms. Hence the population growth rate decreased, instead of constantly increasing, as Malthus had anticipated.

malthus was right, but too early.. our world population is at 7.5 billion, moving to 9 then 10 billion, meanwhile the world is strained by just too many people competing for the same scarce resources

Is it true, he based this theory on the observation of bacteria in a petri dish?

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Interesting topic particularly in time of pandemic.

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Yeah.. there's so much food now, no-one in the world is starving .. therefore unless/until there are NO STARVING PEOPLE in this world Thomas Malthus will AWAYS BE RIGHT % -)

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I'm was here during Covid-19 2020!

Realy clear explanation. Thank you.

Who’s here because their human geo teacher made them watch thus

is this theory happen right now?

Yet he refuted those analyses in his later writings; not that the establishment will ever let you hear that detail.

Yet regarding his analyses: it is the exact inverse: the population increases actually enable far greater degrees of increases in food production in human existence. So he got it exactly backwards- and before his metanoia, he was advocating murder, so he really was a useless villain.

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Shout out to the Bangladeshis....

Malthusian disaster and "soylent green"?

and here we are

But couldn't one argue that as the Malthusian limit rises, the amount of wild land on the planet diminishes, meaning there could be a cap on expansion? Hopefully by then, we'll have started farming in space and have not lost all our wild lands.

Don't worry humans! Skynet will deal with you and save planet from overpopulation!

"If you took every person in the United States and turned them into thirty people..." via Biden Borders, that would effectively solidify Democrat rule forever, or until the destruction of the United States that so much of the world flocks to.

1900 people: you are wrong Thomas Malthus we have lots of food and we don't have a depopulation.
2020 people: It seems that Thomas Malthus was right.

Well he was not wrong though

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It's unpleasant how vulgar the speaker sounds and how sloppily he talks and reads.

Well, Europeans and their expats in foreign lands are all not reproducing at even replacement rates.
This is a third world and non white problem and should be handled as such.

this helped me a lot thanks

The pandemic is proving him right already, waw.

when you are from Bangladesh and now you are scared that your neighbor might come to end you for resources XD

I must have missed it. At what point do we factor in fossil fuel's use to aid humanity's locus-like spread across the planet. Is no habitat left untouched? Neo-Malthusians have a point.

Then covid19 came

today, do we have more NUTRITIOUS calories or EMPTY calories...more vegetables or donuts?

How dare we think the Earth cannot abstain itself 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡

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Thanks for outlining the basics of Malthusianism. I appreciate that you left open the question of whether Malthus will be correct in predicting how todays 8 billion population and growing will fare.

Does anyone else thinks there is a remarkable resemblance between Thomas Malthus and Bill Gates

Sitting here watching this video while having just seen COVID and a with a war growing larger in Eastern Europe

British people gave the world thomas malthus and then francis galton and then they started comiting genocides around the world. These days they're doing it for fuel, food, land, real estate and many other things.

Thanks for this, and all of your great educational materials, Sal. The thing that you didn't mention here in this brief introduction, is that the Malthusian Limit has been artificially increased since the late 1800s by crude oil (and "natural gas" = methane) production, which allowed the food supply to increase. Richard Manning says that for most of the people in the world (perhaps 7B of 8B ppl), there are about 10 calories of petroleum in every 1 calorie of our food. Now add to this the "Peak Oil" work of M. King Hubbert-- BTW, Global Crude Oil Production peaked 11/2018-- and you will see we have a serious problem on our hands, as oil supplies dwindle, and the Malthusian Limit returns down to pre-Petrolpocene ("Age of Oil") levels, likely about 1B people.

We have NOT been able to outstrip population. Most of the cause for our current metacrisis is that our efforts to outstrip population are collapsing our biosohere.

The solution is to balance what you will produce(no. of child) to what you can give (sustain money).

Food and renewable resources are populations too.

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Factor in an engineered crisis. 2020 and it went downhill fast.
2021 covid disrupts businesses
2022 war in Russia Ukraine exacerbates inflation, costs of war
2023 new war sprung up Gaza Israel conflict, Banking failures start to happen, inflation keeps going up, the 2022 Ukraine crisis blows over NATO, BRICS formed to challenge the dollar
2024 Hezbollah removed as terrorist group, PM Turkey Erdogan thinks of an intifada in the waiting, China wants Taiwan, US under Biden BESEIGED with too many cities in decay, borders are open and laws are ineffective
WHAT COULD GO WRONG MOVING FORWARD?
** well Putin arms North Korea with a hypersonic missile. In the wrong hands everything can go wrong.
We are at the cusp.
America will see a civil war this November, as forces are in self preservation mode.
No wonder, bunker building businesses has spiked.

This is really interesting to hear from this perspective because if you search on can academy for 'carrying capacity' there is a video about this same idea but for ecological populations.