I'm 23. I graduated high-school in 2003. I grew up in the southern-most tip of Texas, just a few miles from Mexico. The vast majority of the population consisted of Mexican immigrants, and they tended to have large families, and were largely poor and ignorant. I tended to be in the advanced classes though, which mitigated the effects somewhat. Still, I don't remember overpopulation ever coming up in school, except maybe for someone wondering aloud, "Hmm, what're we gonna do with all those people?" -- but that line of thinking never went very far. I doubt Malthuse's ideas were consciously suppressed... I'd say the most likely thing is that people had just never heard of the guy, or never really payed attention to his ideas.
On Nov 13, 6:01 am, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2008 04:58 am, Jesse Aldridge wrote: > > > I hadn't heard of all that Malthusian stuff before. > > That's interesting (to me). When I went through school (high school in > mid sixties), that was a topic that was at least mentioned (and maybe > more--that was a long time ago). There were many (outside of school), > who denied that. > > I don't keep up with current events all the time, which prompts this > wondering--did Malthuse just get forgotten, or was there a conscious > effort to ignore or suppress his thoughts, or what? > > Anyway, at the time, thoughts of Malthuse led some to thoughts of > limited family size and so forth. If you grew up since then, what was > the attitude in public (i.e., US public) schools about population > growth and so forth? > > Randy Kramer > -- > I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I created a video > instead.--with apologies to Cicero, et.al. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
