Malthusians on the March

[Jeffrey St. Clair]

I've always thought that the Malthusians might have a point if they just
had the balls to apply these prescriptions retroactively. In Aspen, for
example, they could have drawn the line when Hunter S. Thompson moved to
town about 20 years ago--he's so pissed off at the
millionaire/billionaire immigrants that he's taken to blowing up their
koi ponds with sticks of dynamite. Or perhaps, being good liberals who
send Indians forward to accept their Oscars for them, they would be
willing to turn the valley back over to the Paiutes or the Comanches?
Nah.--jsc

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Jeffrey St. Clair quoted:
>
> >WHEREAS: The population of the U.S. is six percent of the world's
> >population, consuming up to 25 percent of the world's natural
> >resources.
>
> This is what I can't understand about the Malthusians' argument. Why
> is the problem the population and not the resource consumption (and
> waste production)? Is it that they want to be able to maintain
> *their* high level of consumption, so eliminating almost everyone
> else might make the arrangement more sustainable?
>
> Doug