Word: malthus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Malthus may have been right after...
...race against Malthus may be a tight one, but Goldberg said, "The human mind has always found the creativity to make the next breakthrough...
...prosperous West is lounging next door to its great kaboom. It is both smug and edgy at the same time. Now comes another agent of doomsday, this one actually killing people and doubling the number of its victims every ten months as if to reverse the logic of Thomas Malthus. The prospect of nuclear holocaust may be terrible, but the mind takes certain perverse psychological comforts from it. It has not happened, for one thing. And if it does happen, it will be over in a flash. AIDS is much slower and smaller, and may not add up ultimately...