The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, not the workers. In increasingly crowded cities, ordinary people struggled ...
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Misunderstood Malthus: The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today
No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” position – the idea that ...
It takes a hardy man to predict the future of the human race for the next million years. Such a man is Charles Galton Darwin, 65, grandson of the late great Charles Robert (The Origin of Species) ...
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Roy Scranton, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) No one uses ...
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