That was the theory of Thomas Malthus. The industrial revolution disrupted his theory as I remember from my studies (Specifically, mechanized farming allowed more food to be grown). That is the problem with any equation that we develop to determine population load, we cannot foresee what changes future technology will have on the capacity of the Earth to sustain a population.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html Thomas E. Potter Telephone: (713) 215-2877 Fax: (713) 215-2551 Mobile: (832) 794-0536 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gabriel S. Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:49 AM To: Mercedes mailing list Subject: Re: [MBZ] Terminal population I agree, improving quality of life for those living is paramount. I have read that they had predicted in the past that the world would never sustain today's population. On 10/25/05, BillR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:50:43 -0700 > From: "Gabriel S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] population > To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Everyone in this world could be as happy as a Catholic Bishop on a > deserted > island with the Vienna boys choir, but, the bottom line is this: This > earth > can physically only support a certain population (what that number is, I > don't know, I hear it has been raised over and over) before people starve > and die. > *********** > Absolutely correct, and IIRC, that terminal population number [actually a > reference to the point at which birth and death numbers match, but often > touted as the max population of the earth] from about 25 years ago is 16 - > 17 billion. I have never trusted such numbers as they suggest that people > will behave in ways that people never will. My point is that we need to > look at a lot of other things besides just 'too many people in the world.' > If that is viewed as the problem then we [especially old men like me] are > pretty much powerless to change things [we can still dream, but that is > another thread...LOL]. It is not one big problem but a LOT of smaller > ones. > BillR > Jacksonville FL > 1981 300SD 265K / 200K engine [?] > > > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > -- Gabriel Soto Southern California 1987 300D 230K=- _______________________________________ For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
