Toni lavis,
Good that you brought natural disasters & health threatening epitemics into the equation because when you look as to how the population has sky-rocketed is due to humankinds increased resilience due to medical progress.
Keeping the population as healthy as possible is a very important quest as is keeping the population growth in check.
Natural disasters are getting worse because of the number of people losing their lives is growing as the population increases. no real science involved in that.
My point is that we need population control. China went too far with only one child but they had no other gauge to go by & they are already allowing tow children., boy & girl.
May I suggest rather than wasting your effort on proving posters wrong, you focus on correcting & bettering their ideas, way more progressive that that typical Leftist progressive regress rhetoric that offers no solutions. We have more than enough criticism but not enough solutions.

Toni Lavis said "Yeah, but Malthus was wrong. Quoting him as an authority is a crap argument."

Answer - Is quoting yourself as an authority any less.

Yes individual, I understand & agree with that.

While sailing around the islands I was told a lot, but all very second hand. Some of those sailing directions did still survive into the 1970s, but almost as folk law.

I could never find out if they went on exploration voyages, or simply found places by accident. There are many stories of discoverers coming back home a number of times to gather settlers.

The sailing directions from that Nugerria to Kapingamarangi through the doldrums, with no consistent wind or swell direction sent them well out to the east, then ran down a zenith star to the west to find the island. It was from Nugerria I learnt the use of cloud cover to find atolls.

The white convection cloud of the ocean will pick up the turquoise colour of lagoon water when above one. Low atolls that can not be seen from more than about 8 miles, can be spotted from over 30 miles using this colour in the clouds technique. Unfortunately, just when I was starting to learn heaps from them, I suddenly got all homesick after 6 years, & needed to come home.

Dog,

Perhaps you don't fully understand the use in English of the negative, but I'll say again that I think that China's one-child policy was and will be disastrous.

And people are living longer, in the sense that most of us will spend many more years than previously not working but being in need of support. Back when the old age pension (at 65) was introduced in Britain (in about 1908?), the average age of death was a bit over 66. By the time China's one child policy really bites, in say ten or twenty years, the average age of death will be close to eighty. Each of those aged grandparents will have, on average, one single grandchild to pay taxes to support them.

Malthus has been thoroughly refuted, by the way. Try to keep up.

Joe

Loudmouth has a point we can not ignore the results/implications of China's one child policy, as a result that country, like other Asian ones, wanting only a son to look after parents in old age, has a wife shortage, some truly inhuman things are taking place to fix that,slavery just one, not sure why some still think there is never going to be a number of humans that is just too many?

Argumentum ad hominem tu quoque

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