Re:50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn ...
by AlbertCory on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:17PM
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Great, thanks for the last-word offer. I'll take it. And by the way, ad hominem attacks just make you look like an idiot.
Maybe try admitting that Ehrlich WAS one of the Malthusians of that period, as evidenced by scholarly articles like [1] and [2], which mention him in the same breath.
You are correct that he's not one of the authors. However, [2] says:
This movement, which was a new
chapter in the long running dispute between Malthusians and Cornucopians (Desrochers and Hoffbauer,
this issue) can be construed as having commenced with
the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)
and Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb (1968), and, by
many accounts, reached maturity with the publication
of The Limits to Growth (1972) and its success and huge
circulation.
Maybe try admitting that Ehrlich WAS one of the Malthusians of that period, as evidenced by scholarly articles like [1] and [2], which mention him in the same breath.
You are correct that he's not one of the authors. However, [2] says:
This movement, which was a new chapter in the long running dispute between Malthusians and Cornucopians (Desrochers and Hoffbauer, this issue) can be construed as having commenced with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) and Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb (1968), and, by many accounts, reached maturity with the publication of The Limits to Growth (1972) and its success and huge circulation.
[1] https://www.condition.org/as95-6.htm
[2] https://ppe.mercatus.org/system/files/JULIAN_AND_THE_LIMITS_...