Quotes About Malthusian

Malthusian-Ricardian theory predicted that an increasing population would result in a specific progression of effects. Rents would rise first, with grain prices lagging behind rents, the price of industrial goods lagging behind grain prices, and workers' wages bringing up the rear. The evidence showed that this was precisely what happened (until the whole system was dramatically changed in the nineteenth century).

A fellow traveller in nascent fascism, and another founder of the Vigilante Society, was the elderly and sinister Dr J.H. Clarke. He was chief consulting physician to the Homeopathic Hospital, Bloomsbury, a profession at odds with his self-proclaimed mission to protect England from the Church of Rome. He also adhered to an unpleasant strain of scientific, Malthusian racism.

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

The philosophy of a conglomerate is to buy as far and as wide as possible and diversify its markets. It both uses and refutes the Malthusian

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

They're so hateful, the women here. Mad, mad and cruel. And of course they don't know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort. So they're having children all the time—like dogs. It's too revolting.

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.

The Malthusian Theory - that mankind, for biological and sociological reasons, is so fertile, so fecund, that if you started out with the new continent and plenty of land for everybody, in several generations we would multiply our numbers.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

Despoilers obey the Malthusian law; they multiply with the means of existence, and the means of existence of knaves is the credulity of their dupes.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

There had always been prophets of Malthusian doom in every generation since Medieval times and they had always proven wrong.

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

The campaign against economic growth and overconsumption should have no place on the left. While its current austerity-ecology incarnation appears to many progressives as a fresh, new argument fit for the Anthropocene, it is in fact the descendent of a very old, dark and Malthusian set of ideas that the left historically did battle with.

Indeed, the long-standing establishment embrace of the Malthusian worry explodes any suggestion that anti-growth is a particularly radical position. But then elites have never really liked the vast bulk of humanity, believing us all to be lesser creatures, unlettered, unrefined.

By the time Nixon reached office the environmental cause had grown stronger than ever, thanks in part to media attention given to Malthusian prophets of doom. Paul Ehrlich, a professor of biology at Stanford, published The Population Bomb (1968), which foresaw the starvation of hundreds of millions of people throughout the world during the 1970s and 1980s if population growth were not controlled.

Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

As it became clear that the growth in the global birth rate had peaked, Malthusian thinkers started to look to climate change as a replacement apocalypse for overpopulation and resource scarcity.

It is the same creative will-to-life that was brilliantly and theatrically formulated by Nietzsche in 'Zarathustra'; that led the Hegelian Marx to an economic and the Malthusian Darwin to a biological hypothesis which, together, have subtly transformed the world-outlook of the Western megalopolis.

Bloom wrote, 'there is nowhere else to seek it. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future.' The English political philosopher John Gray warned of the return of 'more primordial forces, nationalist and religious, fundamentalist and soon, perhaps, Malthusian' that the Cold War had tranquillized; he pointed to the intellectual incapacity of liberalism as well as Marxism in this new world order.