Tom Bob Malthus, an English economist* who lived and died at the turn of the 19th century, wrote a book called 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' that argued convincingly that societies generally use surplus to grow populations and not to sustain a high standard of living. Malthus failed to anticipate the industrial revolution, which turned out to be an unprecedented mechanical means to a surplus of surplus, allowing societies to grow while also pursuing a more or less sustainable, high standard of living. nevertheless, Malthus' concern for effecting changes in society that would act to regulate the growth such that surplus might be put to better use than a base swelling of the population, proved contagious, shaping the thought of Darwin, Wallace and generations of economists, philosophers and sociologists that came after them.

the term Malthusian denotes a concern for an exponential growth of populations that spells doom of the inevitable sort, in the apocalyptic language of famine, war, disease, poverty and moral degradation. in many ways, it is a descriptive that is often employed sort of tongue and cheek to denote an unreasonable, obsessive and ultimately authoritarian concern for mitigating the growth of populations.

some would consider the Georgia Guide Stones and its casual call to limit the human population to an anemic 500,000 people globally, to be a Malthusian monument, which is likely what resulted in its being bombed out of commission. a population of 500,000 people, from the climaxing height of 8 or so billion, seems very, very small. why? what motivates such a low cap on growth?

in short, fear. in 1968, the Club or Rome is founded. A group of ‘one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe’ (wiki), the Club of Rome has made a practice of using sophisticated techniques to deduce and define the problems that mankind will need to tackle in the coming years. A favorite methodology of both the Club and those copious thinkers who look to it for guidance, is computer modeling, and computer models tend to point toward a need to limit growth.

in and of itself, limiting growth may not be an entirely unreasonable idea. looking at the latest data, we are likely to see a sort of organic decrease in global population over the next several generations. the problem arises when the psychologically insulated nerds, the dead eyed artists, the death anxious social engineers, the myopic politicians and the empty headed marionette media personalities all become convinced that the more alarmist findings of the computer models are of more value than the conservative ones. as these sociopathic minds all converge on a panicked interpretation of only a portion of the data set, society begins to veer toward a suicidal bent- slowly at first, but eventually the powers that be become obsessed with the conclusion that an unchecked fear of overpopulation must inevitably arrive, we find society proactively engaged in a ultraviolent assault on every part of the society they deem expendable. a concern with automation becomes commonplace. the quality of food and medicine crashes. the news becomes an impenetrable spectacle. the youth is lost to an idiot hedonism. war loses all rhyme and reason. the government reveals like a hog in a filthy corruption that seems insurmountable. everything falls apart and a pale horse gallops frenetic across an ugly purple sky.

sound familiar?

now, the above description is an embellishment, a hyperbolic interpretation of an echoing conformation bias, a fairly convincing fiction that seems to fit the evidence because the evidence has been erected in the foreground to support just such an insidious narrative. if you are reading this, there is hope. everywhere. you are hope. the hands you have are hope. your mind, broken, bent, overclocked, or pure, is hope. the city you live in, with its buildings and rail lines, people and cars, is hope. the trees at the end of the road, the mountain rising out of the trees, the lake at it’s foot, there is hope. it is anything but hopeless.

recall, these monsters of a perverted status quo derive their energy and drive from a partial, and small, sampling from a larger set of data. in the final analysis, there is a veritably unending output of variously variable models to interpret, and in that deep pool of data, you will find that, with an equal degree of certainty (which isn’t much), this planet may well be capable of supporting a population of 99 billion humans. it may not be a pleasant existence, a bit crowded, but with a little planning and a whole lot of patience, it may well be doable. not that we ought to aim so high, but the point stands. there is no defensible reason to structure and steer a society with policy, mandate and decree toward a culling of the population. it is a coward’s impulse, and the pathological strategy of a self possessed nihilist.

as was mentioned above, the global population appears by all measures to be heading toward a steady decrease that ought to level out somewhere around the four or five billion mark, and if sufficient effort is made to restructure society in a way that no longer facilitates the inevitable corruption of an antiquated and anachronistic pretension toward the devil’s coupling of political philosophy and planned economics, there is no reason to believe that the human beings of the 22 century will not be wise enough and intellectually sound enough to hold themselves to a sustainable standard of both population size and quality of life.

put that in your mosquito and release it, Bill. you are a detriment to the species. FDA

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