Malthus Was An Idiot (Well Wrong Anyway!)

SEE HERE Other things being equal you can hardly avoid the conclusion that Thomas Malthus was quite wrong about population. Now don't get me wrong. We do live on a finite planet and it's obvious that you can outrun your food supply (of course you can't do it all at once and generally speaking since mankind actually is a thinking animal as opposed to things like insects) so what happens is that people tend to do things that avoid the problem. Among the things that we've done is improve agriculture, produce food preservation and handling technologies and others.