Word: malthusian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Galbraith says, is the true nature of the "equilibrium of poverty." He claimed that in the U.S., income can be increased simply by a little macroeconomic maneuvering, and most of the time each individual can boost his own economic status if he so wishes. In places like India, however, Malthusian forces keep the poor poor. Growing population and the overwhelming pressure of current needs swamp small increases in national product. The models of economic growth taught to eager American college students do not apply to a country with hordes of people on the edge of subsistence. Centuries of poverty have...
...informed" readers who had already read enough about the not-so-current issue. My prediction is that when there is another coincidence of visible large scale famine in less developed societies and sudden food supply threats in developed ones, the issue of food will again seem to ssume the Malthusian dimensions it had before; that when the "price we pay for bread and steak" hits home as hard as it did after the wheat deals, we will get public coverage on the same scale...
...people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth is "a threat to our national security. " Nonetheless, some analysts see cause for hope-if action is taken in time. Among them is World Bank President Robert S. McNamara, who examined the status of the Malthusian threat and what can be done about it in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Excerpts...
Herbert brings in potentially captivating ideas: the fantasy version of a Malthusian crisis and the clash of two omnicompetent cults both of which are the playthings of a greater power. However, he fails to develop them beyond the elementary stages. The lifestyle of those doomed to live on the rim goes unexplored when it could be the most graphic part of the book. Herbert only touches on the training it takes to be a Legum, how the newly indoctrinated members shed their skins (that is much easier for a frog to do than a human.) Herbert should initiate the reader...
Hirsch says the concerns about limits to growth that the Club of Rome has voiced are off target. This informal group of scientists and economists warned of such Malthusian type of world disasters as starvation and over-crowding in the famous Limits to Growth...