Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> There's just something about someone who claims genes are "selfish" that
> gives it more punch,
It certainly has panache.
> than taking the words of someone who was so stupid he couldn't predict the
> discovery of fossil fuel, and the
> *temporary* reprieve that gave us.
>
I am far from an admirer of Malthus. Still, it seems unfair to blame
anyone for lack of prescience.
When some nut discovers a way to spray sand with some cheap concoction,
let bake in the sun for a while, stick electrodes in it and generate
essentially unlimited, almost free power, will today's Malthusian
equivalents have been fools for not seeing the next thing that long
delays the inevitable reckoning?
I am not, by the way, agreeing or disagreeing with the doom-sayers here,
only addressing your characterization of Malthus as a fool - for the
wrong reason.
Moose
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