Author: Ron Gibson

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. —Arnold Toynbee Some time ago, in some lab somewhere, some fruit flies were put into a closed container of some size, given some nectar, and patiently observed. The nectar supply kept up with …

Every reader of this publication will know of Thomas Malthus, the man who first warned of human overpopulation. His warnings that exponential human population growth would outpace food production have become so well known since his death (in 1834) as to give birth to that adjective Malthusian. And for the past half century or so, …