On Friday 14 November 2008 07:07 am, Jesse Aldridge wrote: > 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.
Jesse, Thanks for the response and the data points! I guess I'm wondering how/why it was taught in the mid-60's and not in the 'oughts (2000's)--I'm assuming it was part of the curriculum (or at least in textbook(s?)) when I went to school, but not when you went to school. Textbook makers accidentally dropped it? Intentionally dropped it? Ran out of space? Or maybe I'm misremembering and learned about Malthus somewhere other than the classroom? In those days (and for quite a while since) I did a lot of reading. I'm interested in hearing from others. I guess maybe I should say that at the time I heard of Malthus and for a long time since, I've been very pessimistic about "life". Looking back, I'm not sure that pessimism was (fully) warranted. On the other hand, there have been a lot of wars, genocidal activities, diseases, economic recessions of various degrees, etc.--maybe they were the ill effects of overpopulation and also served as a pressure relief that (so far) kept things from getting worse? 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
