Neo-Malthanism
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- Created on: 01-06-14 16:34
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- Neo-Malthusian
- Paul Ehrlich
- "The population bomb" (1968)
- Population outstripped resources -> in 1970s grate famine that will kill millions of people
- Club of Rome
- formed in 1972, headed by Dennis Meadows
- developed Limits to Growth Model
- it looked at population, natural resources, agricultural output, industrial production and pollution
- ability of resources, food, the environment, etc. to meet human needs will be reached by 2070, then start to decline-> increase ind death rates
- criticism doesn't look at individual regions that may be well resourced and underpopulated, doesn't take into account certain developments in technology (renewables, GM crops and desalination)
- growth in population would lead to worlds misery
- Paul Ehrlich
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