Marts's Blog – February 2011 Archive (1)

So 2011 hits a population milestone - 7 billion, twice as many as 1960... thus is predicted...

Any discussion of current population issues must draw reference to Thomas Malthus's 1798 treatise "An Essay on the Principle of Population" which highlighted a general 'law of population' which stated that populations grow faster than food supplies until war, diseases, and famine reduce the number of people. It also discusses an ideal population relative to food supply or maybe I should say…