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Malthus and the Scarcity of Correct Predictions

Wheat field in Dixon, Ill. (Jim Young/Reuters)

The good people at Kite & Key Media launched their fall series of cool videos with one taking Thomas Malthus and Paul Erlich and other Doomsday Apostles to the intellectual woodshed. For centuries, the compulsion to predict calamity, starvation, and resource depletion — all because there are just way too many people — has continued in the face of . . . facts. A refresher course on them is always good to have, and that’s what anyone will find in this most-welcome production titled Superabundance: How Humans Hacked Nature. Watch it here:

Jack Fowler is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior philanthropy consultant at American Philanthropic.
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