January 26, 2001
Saving the Environment, One (Fewer) Child at a Time
The English economist Thomas Robert Malthus made a long-lasting name for himself by proposing that the growth of the world's human population would outstrip the growth of resources. His An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in 1798, was a cornerstone of Darwin's theory of natural selection, and inspired population-control activists during their heyday in the 1960's and early 70's. But in 1998, the 200th anniversary of Malthus's essay went almost unnoticed. The following year,
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