like I said…
@Neo: “ceteris paribus” condition includes the population make-up, i.e. the percentage of smart-people, stupid-people. etc.
Clayton -
My argument is that there can be such a thing as overpopulation.
Aaah gotchya. It still depends upon who you are to some extent, however.
@you
I’d be shocked if anyone was arguing against that.
How so? If there are too many people relative to the resources they need to reach their ends (eat, live, prosper), then there will be less people. If not, there will be more people. Either way, neither you nor Malthus needn’t worry your (big?) brains over it.
“If there are too many people relative to the resources they need to reach their ends (eat, live, prosper), then there will be less people. If not, there will be more people.”
Is this state of affairs somehow different from a world which is overpopulated that leads to a decrease in the population through starvation?
How did the “green revolution” - whatever that is - prevent a famine in Mexico?
Now you are just pulling my leg.
“Is this state of affairs somehow different from a world which is overpopulated that leads to a decrease in the population through starvation?”
Why/how would the world become overpopulated if there was not enough food? Are you assuming a scenario by which food immediately disappears and this catches everyone off guard?
“Why/how would the world become overpopulated if there was not enough food? Are you assuming a scenario by which food immediately disappears and this catches everyone off guard?”
If individuals have children when they cannot afford enough food to properly sustain the child, or if there is any sort of fluctuation in the income of these people/the price of food then for a short time the world would be overpopulated. More over a world which was that close towards starvation may in and of itself be considered overpopulated.
@John James
Stop the abuse please.
You show up out of nowhere after a 2 year absence just to claim my calling out trollish behavior as “abuse”? Should I be honored? Or suspicious? Both?
How long could this state of “overpopulation” conceivably last? How likely is it that the barely alive children of their barely alive parents will produce an even larger batch of barely alive children?
How about amused? It’s pretty silly.
“How long could this state of “overpopulation” conceivably last? How likely is it that the barely alive children of their barely alive parents will produce an even larger batch of barely alive children?”
Well that’s the state in which most of humanity classically lived and which many people currently live in in underdeveloped countries.
Yeah, JJ.
Clayton -
Yeah that’s me. Mr. Abuse.
But don’t you just love my nipple ring?
JJ, you heartless pig, how could you slap Bella??? You know Edward is going to hunt you down and suck your blood, now…
Clayton -