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  1. I am sick and tired of stinking apocalyptic movies.

    There WAS a tradition in science fiction to weave believable warnings of the outcomes our blindnesses might produce.

    Now its fatalism and lies, not warnings but resignation. I call it propaganda.

    We are on the edge of civilizaton. All our old worries, starvation and disease. All but solved.

    Mothers, in your mother's lifetime said eat your vegetables there's starving kids in China."

    Only billionaire arrogance stands in our way.

    #Malthus

  2. RE: sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/

    Heute ist der #DarwinDay , den ich seit dem Schreiben einer #Darwin - Biografie jedes Jahr persönlich & kritisch begehe.

    So hatte der studierte Theologe wissenschaftlich Enormes geleistet, mit der Aufnahme des #Malthusianismus (der schon damals falschen Behauptung eines „natürlich“ exponentiellen Bevölkerungswachstums) die Tore für #Sozialdarwinimsus, die sog. Eugenik & krassen #Sexismus aufgestoßen.

    Bin dankbar, dass hier #Demografie 👇 bei den meisten (fast allen) ohne #Malthus auskommt! 🙏📚🙌

  3. RE: sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/

    Heute ist der #DarwinDay , den ich seit dem Schreiben einer #Darwin - Biografie jedes Jahr persönlich & kritisch begehe.

    So hatte der studierte Theologe wissenschaftlich Enormes geleistet, mit der Aufnahme des #Malthusianismus (der schon damals falschen Behauptung eines „natürlich“ exponentiellen Bevölkerungswachstums) die Tore für #Sozialdarwinimsus, die sog. Eugenik & krassen #Sexismus aufgestoßen.

    Bin dankbar, dass hier #Demografie 👇 bei den meisten (fast allen) ohne #Malthus auskommt! 🙏📚🙌

  4. RE: sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/

    Heute ist der #DarwinDay , den ich seit dem Schreiben einer #Darwin - Biografie jedes Jahr persönlich & kritisch begehe.

    So hatte der studierte Theologe wissenschaftlich Enormes geleistet, mit der Aufnahme des #Malthusianismus (der schon damals falschen Behauptung eines „natürlich“ exponentiellen Bevölkerungswachstums) die Tore für #Sozialdarwinimsus, die sog. Eugenik & krassen #Sexismus aufgestoßen.

    Bin dankbar, dass hier #Demografie 👇 bei den meisten (fast allen) ohne #Malthus auskommt! 🙏📚🙌

  5. RE: sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/

    Heute ist der #DarwinDay , den ich seit dem Schreiben einer #Darwin - Biografie jedes Jahr persönlich & kritisch begehe.

    So hatte der studierte Theologe wissenschaftlich Enormes geleistet, mit der Aufnahme des #Malthusianismus (der schon damals falschen Behauptung eines „natürlich“ exponentiellen Bevölkerungswachstums) die Tore für #Sozialdarwinimsus, die sog. Eugenik & krassen #Sexismus aufgestoßen.

    Bin dankbar, dass hier #Demografie 👇 bei den meisten (fast allen) ohne #Malthus auskommt! 🙏📚🙌

  6. RE: sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/

    Heute ist der #DarwinDay , den ich seit dem Schreiben einer #Darwin - Biografie jedes Jahr persönlich & kritisch begehe.

    So hatte der studierte Theologe wissenschaftlich Enormes geleistet, mit der Aufnahme des #Malthusianismus (der schon damals falschen Behauptung eines „natürlich“ exponentiellen Bevölkerungswachstums) die Tore für #Sozialdarwinimsus, die sog. Eugenik & krassen #Sexismus aufgestoßen.

    Bin dankbar, dass hier #Demografie 👇 bei den meisten (fast allen) ohne #Malthus auskommt! 🙏📚🙌

  7. @OhMyGod

    Ja, das sog. #Bevölkerungsgesetz vermeintlich ewigen Wachstums der menschlichen #Demografie stammte von Thomas Robert #Malthus & führte zum verhängnisvollen #Malthusianismus inklusive #Sozialdarwinismus und #Eugenik sowie dem noch immer aktiven Mythos der sog. #Überbevölkerung. Dabei rasen wir längst in eine #Bevölkerungsimplosion. Und jetzt schon bricht jede auch fossile #Exportwirtschaft ein. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  8. @OhMyGod

    Ja, das sog. #Bevölkerungsgesetz vermeintlich ewigen Wachstums der menschlichen #Demografie stammte von Thomas Robert #Malthus & führte zum verhängnisvollen #Malthusianismus inklusive #Sozialdarwinismus und #Eugenik sowie dem noch immer aktiven Mythos der sog. #Überbevölkerung. Dabei rasen wir längst in eine #Bevölkerungsimplosion. Und jetzt schon bricht jede auch fossile #Exportwirtschaft ein. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  9. @OhMyGod

    Ja, das sog. #Bevölkerungsgesetz vermeintlich ewigen Wachstums der menschlichen #Demografie stammte von Thomas Robert #Malthus & führte zum verhängnisvollen #Malthusianismus inklusive #Sozialdarwinismus und #Eugenik sowie dem noch immer aktiven Mythos der sog. #Überbevölkerung. Dabei rasen wir längst in eine #Bevölkerungsimplosion. Und jetzt schon bricht jede auch fossile #Exportwirtschaft ein. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  10. @OhMyGod

    Ja, das sog. #Bevölkerungsgesetz vermeintlich ewigen Wachstums der menschlichen #Demografie stammte von Thomas Robert #Malthus & führte zum verhängnisvollen #Malthusianismus inklusive #Sozialdarwinismus und #Eugenik sowie dem noch immer aktiven Mythos der sog. #Überbevölkerung. Dabei rasen wir längst in eine #Bevölkerungsimplosion. Und jetzt schon bricht jede auch fossile #Exportwirtschaft ein. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  11. @OhMyGod

    Ja, das sog. #Bevölkerungsgesetz vermeintlich ewigen Wachstums der menschlichen #Demografie stammte von Thomas Robert #Malthus & führte zum verhängnisvollen #Malthusianismus inklusive #Sozialdarwinismus und #Eugenik sowie dem noch immer aktiven Mythos der sog. #Überbevölkerung. Dabei rasen wir längst in eine #Bevölkerungsimplosion. Und jetzt schon bricht jede auch fossile #Exportwirtschaft ein. scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-

  12. "Il libro di Jason W. Moore raccoglie una serie di testi (alcuni dei quali inediti) dedicati al rapporto tra lotta “ambientalista” e lotta “politica”. Uno di questi testi – Oltre la giustizia climatica – dà anche il titolo al libro e sviluppa una dura critica nei confronti dell’ambientalismo americano "

    #ambientalismo #Antropocene #bombademografica #capitalismo #ecologia #ecologiapolitica #Malthus #Moore #neomalthusianesimo #politica

    continua @ antiper.org/2025/09/02/moore-o

  13. "Il libro di Jason W. Moore raccoglie una serie di testi (alcuni dei quali inediti) dedicati al rapporto tra lotta “ambientalista” e lotta “politica”. Uno di questi testi – Oltre la giustizia climatica – dà anche il titolo al libro e sviluppa una dura critica nei confronti dell’ambientalismo americano "

    #ambientalismo #Antropocene #bombademografica #capitalismo #ecologia #ecologiapolitica #Malthus #Moore #neomalthusianesimo #politica

    continua @ antiper.org/2025/09/02/moore-o

  14. "Il libro di Jason W. Moore raccoglie una serie di testi (alcuni dei quali inediti) dedicati al rapporto tra lotta “ambientalista” e lotta “politica”. Uno di questi testi – Oltre la giustizia climatica – dà anche il titolo al libro e sviluppa una dura critica nei confronti dell’ambientalismo americano "

    #ambientalismo #Antropocene #bombademografica #capitalismo #ecologia #ecologiapolitica #Malthus #Moore #neomalthusianesimo #politica

    continua @ antiper.org/2025/09/02/moore-o

  15. "Il libro di Jason W. Moore raccoglie una serie di testi (alcuni dei quali inediti) dedicati al rapporto tra lotta “ambientalista” e lotta “politica”. Uno di questi testi – Oltre la giustizia climatica – dà anche il titolo al libro e sviluppa una dura critica nei confronti dell’ambientalismo americano "

    #ambientalismo #Antropocene #bombademografica #capitalismo #ecologia #ecologiapolitica #Malthus #Moore #neomalthusianesimo #politica

    continua @ antiper.org/2025/09/02/moore-o

  16. “The ‘great general principles’ of #politicaleconomy, ( #Malthus) said, can be useful guides but we must not forget ‘the passions and propensities of #humannature’.” - #NatDyer, Ricardo’s Dream: How #Economists Forgot the #RealWorld and Led Us All Astray. #economics #DavidRicardo

  17. Apologies in advance this a one heck of a ramble, about what we should do next in a society where, thankfully, we don't let citizens needlessly die. #MoralPhilosophy #Philosophy #Ethics #Morality #Economics #Society #RedQueen #Malthus #Evolution #Armsrace

    We Don't Just Let People Die ~...

  18. The #COVID #pandemic hit during his first term, and now there is a risk of a #H5N1 / #BirdFlu pandemic during his second term.

    He has cut essential staff at the #FDA and #CDC and put a #vaccine denier in charge of #HHS.

    #Pandmics make a good case for restricting the populus which could then be abused to establish an authoritarian state.

    You have to wonder if #Malthus would be proud.

    #MalthusWouldBeProud #USPolitics
    #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

    Source: @wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R

  19. The #COVID #pandemic hit during his first term, and now there is a risk of a #H5N1 / #BirdFlu pandemic during his second term.

    He has cut essential staff at the #FDA and #CDC and put a #vaccine denier in charge of #HHS.

    #Pandmics make a good case for restricting the populus which could then be abused to establish an authoritarian state.

    You have to wonder if #Malthus would be proud.

    #MalthusWouldBeProud #USPolitics
    #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

    Source: @wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R

  20. The #COVID #pandemic hit during his first term, and now there is a risk of a #H5N1 / #BirdFlu pandemic during his second term.

    He has cut essential staff at the #FDA and #CDC and put a #vaccine denier in charge of #HHS.

    #Pandmics make a good case for restricting the populus which could then be abused to establish an authoritarian state.

    You have to wonder if #Malthus would be proud.

    #MalthusWouldBeProud #USPolitics
    #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

    Source: @wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R

  21. The #COVID #pandemic hit during his first term, and now there is a risk of a #H5N1 / #BirdFlu pandemic during his second term.

    He has cut essential staff at the #FDA and #CDC and put a #vaccine denier in charge of #HHS.

    #Pandmics make a good case for restricting the populus which could then be abused to establish an authoritarian state.

    You have to wonder if #Malthus would be proud.

    #MalthusWouldBeProud #USPolitics
    #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

    Source: @wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R

  22. The #COVID #pandemic hit during his first term, and now there is a risk of a #H5N1 / #BirdFlu pandemic during his second term.

    He has cut essential staff at the #FDA and #CDC and put a #vaccine denier in charge of #HHS.

    #Pandmics make a good case for restricting the populus which could then be abused to establish an authoritarian state.

    You have to wonder if #Malthus would be proud.

    #MalthusWouldBeProud #USPolitics
    #ThePoliticsOfHate #ThePoliticsOfGreed

    Source: @wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R

  23. It seems that Malthus wrote the first edition [of An Essay on the Principles of Population] in part as a rebuttal to a family argument with his father...

    Excerpt from GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? By Tyler Cowen

    The world's first 'scientific' prediction of enviro-apocalypse, genius of the "dismal science", and direct intellectual progenitor of doomsdayers like Paul Ehrlich to this very day; and he wrote the whole thing because he was mad at his rich dad.

    I think we've done it, gentleman. We've finally found the world's first shitlib.

    #malthus #economics #GOAT

  24. •The two types of checks in the #Malthus law of population are positive checks and negative checks.
    •Positive or natural checks refer to those which relate to increases in the death rate. Examples include famines and epidemics.
    •Negative or preventive checks are those which relate to decreases in the birth and fertility rates. Examples include abstinence and delaying marriages.

    *Here are two examples of Negative Checks:
    cnn.com/2023/11/15/health/sper

    cnn.com/2023/11/01/health/mobi

  25. Race You To The Water

    The other day I expressed some misgivings over the word that Earthworks chose to apply to water in the first sentence of its report, Polluting the Future: their characterization of water as an “asset,” I said, made me uneasy. The water flowing from springs and brooks, the water of rivers, lakes and streams, the raindrops that fall from the sky and the dew on the morning grass, the water in our bodies, in plants and trees, the water in dogs, flowers, bugs, fish, elephants, walruses and caterpillars, the water in everything that is alive on earth — water is and will always be something greater, more wondrous and something other than a mere entry in the accounting ledgers of some grand business enterprise, which is all that the word “asset” conjures for me.

    I came across the word again today as I was reading an editorial in The Detroit Free Press. I am in complete sympathy with the position it takes against plans to build a huge network of oil pipelines carrying diluted bitumen (or dilbit) across the Great Lakes region, and to transport crude oil by barge across Lake Superior. These are reckless, irresponsible ideas. The threat they pose to the integrity of the Lakes and the life the Lakes sustain is only made worse when you consider a couple of salient facts. First (and it is curious that the editorial does not mention this), the new mining around Lake Superior — as I’ve noted repeatedly — is already going to put pressure on Lake Superior and the Lake Superior watershed; the shipping of oil by barge would bring even more industrialization and greatly heighten the risk of environmental catastrophe. Second, the company building and running the pipeline (the Canadian company Enbridge) has already been responsible for an environmental disaster in Kalamazoo, Michigan — the worst inland oil spill in US history, in fact.

    The editorial takes the position that these plans betray a “deep misunderstanding of the true value of the lakes,” but when the editors try to say what that value is, they run into trouble:

    It’s easy to wax poetic about the value of the Great Lakes to Michigan and the other states they border. The beauty of the lakes, the wildlife and fish that dwell in and around the lakes, the environmental benefits the lakes present — they’re incalculable.

    But let’s get practical: Clean freshwater is one of the scarcest commodities there is. And it’s only going to get worse. Clean water will be an asset that’s worth far more than oil. Jeopardizing the Great Lakes isn’t just morally and ethically wrong. It’s financially foolish, as well.

    It’s interesting how the argument here moves, in just a couple of short paragraphs, from the “incalculable” to the crudest of calculations — the “worth” of clean water. This is tantamount to arguing that what is “morally and ethically” right should take second place to what is financially sound — as if finance should have more claim on the imagination and intellect (and the heart) than morality, and monetary value should be privileged over moral and ethical considerations.

    I suppose that’s the way it goes nowadays, and I just need to get real. Still, there’s a great swirl of confusion in these two paragraphs, and I have a number of questions about the concept of morality being invoked here, how we’re to distinguish it from ethics, and why those things don’t seem to figure into what are called “practical” considerations. Practice and finance here are unmoored from and unrestricted by moral and ethical concerns; it’s precisely that kind of thinking that got us into the precarious situation we’re now in.

    One remedy for all this confusion may lie in the perspective that holds water to be a basic human right — a perspective I also found missing from the Earthworks report. But even then we need to go beyond talking about assets and recognize the limitations of the argument that “clean freshwater is one of the scarcest commodities.” Why? Follow the link from The Detroit Free Press editorial to the National Geographic site on the “Freshwater Crisis.” There you enter a Malthusian world:

    While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time—continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our cups—the population has exploded. This means that every year competition for a clean, copious supply of water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and sustaining life intensifies.

    Here, all of humanity is engaged in a contest or race. More and more people enter every year to compete for the same, limited resources. This is one reason why it’s imperative to recognize freshwater as a human right. Otherwise, history becomes a death match, or a big, global reality TV show: intensifying “competition” over this scarce “commodity” means that there will be winners and losers in the water game. The winners are fully vested with their rights; the losers struggle to survive in arid, toxic regions, or simply die of thirst.

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    #commodity #corporatePower #DetroitFreePress #dilbit #Enbridge #environmentalEthics #ethics #extractiveIndustry #finance #GreatLakes #humanRights #LakeSuperior #language #Malthus #Malthusianism #metaphors #Michigan #moralPhilosophy #morality #power #practice #scarcity #Water
  26. Buckmister Fuller's thoughts in 1917 that "we actually had the possibility of doing so much with so little and might be able to take care of all humanity at the highest standard of living anyone has ever experienced, and to do it by 1985. And if we did that, the whole raison d'etre of war would disappear."

    Quoted in "R. Buckminster Fuller : an autobiographical monologue/scenario"

    #BuckminsterFuller #RoadNotTaken #Malthus

  27. @ChristophBuck Danke - das sind sehr mutige & gute Überlegungen! 🙏📚✅

    Ich hatte früh eine #Darwin-Biografie verfasst, in der ich mich auch mit der fatalen Rolle von #Malthus & der Verdrängung von Antoinette Brown Blackwell befasste. Ich stimme zu: Da müssten wir ran! 👍

  28. @bot @gabriel @n3n3tl
    Much to the surprise of most dissenters of #Malthus' writings he did have a third scenario, which we like to describe as #ConvivialSufficiency.

    For us it is a question of how we get there. Is it via massSurveillance and #ComputerSaysNo AI. Or do we just embrace less for *all*. We think #bitcoin's public (and optionally private) ledger is a good way to opt out and embrace #LimitsToGrowth in our view, with its limited supply.

    Can we acheive it without neoFeudal #dotCons?

  29. There will be a day
    in the decades to come
    when the last chip gets cut from its wafer
    and passes its tests that no longer matter
    because the last bullshit product has shipped
    to a dead warehouse, emptied by the devastation
    from so much sprawling bullshit shipped before then
    and nobody is left breathing or caring enough
    there to receive it anymore.

    #Climate #ClimateChange #PeakOil #Resource #Depletion #Overshoot #OverPopulation #Pandemic #Disease #Malthus #Collapse

  30. a useful short reflection on possible policy responses to current low birth rates in China, informed by historical understanding and respect for the effective agency of individuals and couples, from one of the masters of Chinese social science

    #fertility #population #China #family #policy #children #Malthus
    @cameron @9DashLine

  31. Je pense qu'a un moment il faut bien admettre que macron n'est pas un mauvais politicien, mais que bien au contraire il a fait une très bonne politique malthusienne.

    #Politique #politiquefr #malthus #malthusianisme #Macron

    (désolé, je retrouve plus cette vidéo avec les sous-titres FR)

  32. @andreas
    We understand #Malthus produced three basic scenarios. Two are disaster the third is we all realise its a #finitePlanet and control how much sperm is collectively injected into the subset of all possible vaginas.

    We are hoping for the third, yes.

    @Eris @mystik @Bro-Drillard @cirnog @GrantTK @Samhydeigger @skylar

  33. @yaaps @vidak
    2/2

    It bares repeating to you, #Malthus predicted a third direction for humanity, in which we respect our #planetaryBounds.

    Also, #LimitsToGrowth have been showing themselves in ways you seem not aware of. AlbertBartlett is celebrated for a reason and we strongly encourage anyone reading this to check out his lecture.

    There's also #SpaceShipEconomy. We are not huge fans of #SteveKeen's #DebtJubilee ideas but he is right about climate issues

    @vidak

  34. Upstream: Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (In Conversation) soundcloud.com/upstreampodcast

    (NewPipe can play SoundCloud links)

    #capitalism #climateCrisis #Malthus #ecoFascism

  35. @ilr
    Hi ILR,

    So much bad #rascism back then.

    Many negative ideas are put on #ThomasMalthus as #Malthusian but Malthus did provide positive scenarios around #education.

    Educated #societies with access to #contraception and #familyPlanning services achieve lower #fertility - a great and #humane #scenario that #Malthus thought about.

    #Elites don't want us knowing this. They want us to associate #populationGrowth with good and Malthus with evil, a from of #trickery for more hapless #workers.

  36. Je pense qu'a un moment il faut bien admettre que macron n'est pas un mauvais politicien, mais que bien au contraire il a fait une très bonne politique malthusienne.

    #Politique #politiquefr #malthus #malthusianisme #Macron

    (désolé, je retrouve plus cette vidéo avec les sous-titres FR)