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Malthusian Theory and Travel Beyond Earth Orbit
"John Maxson" wrote in message ...
Does a newer space ship offer us a timely chance to beat the Malthusian outcome (i.e.., will it help us find natural resources on another celestial body and also lead to colonization)? Spaceflight will never solve the classic Malthusian population growth problem. Isaac Asimov was an ardent proponent of halting population growth. He pointed out that in one or two thousand years, with exponential population growth, the entire Solar System would be converted into a spherical mass of human flesh, expanding at the speed of light. The Power of Progression First Published In: May-69, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Clearly this won't happen! A lessor population growth may have to be met by off-earth resources, but that is a different problem. |
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