Malthus Quotes

• Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often cannot be entirely dead.

  Herman E. Daly

  Mother, Scarcity, Earth

  Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.43, Island Press

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• As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be made that our civilization is fundamentally threatened by the lack of adequate fertility control. Exponential increases of population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized.

  Carl Sagan

  Cancer, Science, Thinking

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• Hace siglo y medio, Malthus sostenía que el hombre, al agotar todos sus recursos disponibles, presionaría para siempre sobre los límites de la subsistencia, condenando así a la humanidad a un futuro indefinido de miseria y pobreza. Ahora podemos empezar a esperar y, creo, saber que Malthus no estaba expresando una ley de la naturaleza, sino simplemente la limitación entonces de la sabiduría científica y social. La verdad o falsedad de su predicción dependerá ahora, con las herramientas de que disponemos, de nuestras propias acciones, ahora y en los años venideros.

  John F. Kennedy

  Creer, Futuro, Ciencia

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• De hecho, el demógrafo Thomas Malthus creía que la única forma de que la población humana se controlara a sí misma era precipitándose hacia una catástrofe, como una pandemia o una hambruna. A veces nos sentimos tan frustrados por la lentitud de los procesos políticos humanos que deseamos que una roca gigante en llamas nos resuelva el problema.

  Annalee Newitz

  Correr, Creer, Rocas

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Pareja, Diversión, Pasado

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Talking, Ideas, Soldier

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• Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Children, Ordinary, Three

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• Malthus se casó en 1804 y tuvo tres hijos con su mujer

  Thomas Malthus

  Hijos, Esposa, Tres

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