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Nathalie Rothschild
Happy birthday, baby seven billion!
Ignore the population doom-mongers and dive into spiked’s archives for a celebration of human life and ingenuity.
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| Wednesday 12 October 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Beware Malthusians posing as progressives
Don’t be fooled by the fashionable new crowd of Malthus-bashing greens: they’re as misanthropic as old-style population scaremongers.
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| Tuesday 31 May 2011 |
Tim Black
Beware Malthusians in reasonable clothing
The green critics of population control are just as misanthropic as their prophylactic-promoting opponents.
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| Thursday 13 January 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The definitive guide to modern-day Malthusians
With the human population heading towards seven billion, spiked challenges the miserabilists who say this is a Very Bad Thing.
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| Wednesday 22 December 2010 |
Tim Black
The return of the population panickers
In 2010, more and more of the supposedly great and good signed up for the misery-fest that is neo-Malthusianism.
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| Friday 17 December 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Our Brave New World of Malthusian madmen
From Burgess’s Wanting Seed to Huxley’s Brave New World, the wacky Malthusian ideas of dystopian literature are now everyday beliefs.
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| Friday 3 December 2010 |
Sean Collins
Jonathan Franzen: the Great American Malthusian
Franzen’s deep misanthropy prevents Freedom from being a good novel: his characters’ lack of nobility means they just aren’t interesting.
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| Monday 8 November 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Think the Earth is finite? Think again
When modern Malthusians insist that resources are finite, they only expose their historical illiteracy, misanthropy and social pessimism.
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| Monday 8 November 2010 |
Adrian Stott
What is your beef with Malthus and friends?
A longtime Optimum Population Trust supporter struggles to understand spiked’s opposition to Malthusianism.
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| Tuesday 19 October 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The British elite prefers polite Malthusianism
The American woman paying British drug addicts to stop breeding is only saying out loud what respectable people normally say in code.
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| Monday 19 July 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
A prejudice in search of a scientific disguise
The Royal Society’s two-year study of population seems to have already decided that there are ‘too many people’.
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| Friday 9 April 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Burying Malthus to save Malthusianism
The so-called ‘progressive greens’ challenging the overpopulation thesis are really only interested in making Malthusian thinking more PC.
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| Friday 19 March 2010 |
Frank Furedi
A depletionist view of history and humanity
What a shame that David Willetts, one of the few intellectual parliamentarians, has written such a wrongheaded book on the baby boomers.
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| Wednesday 6 January 2010 |
Tim Black
Down with these Malthusian MPs
A proposal to cap the UK population at 70million shows how mainstream miserabilist population control has become.
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| Monday 7 December 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Treating human beings as little more than carbon
As the Copenhagen summit starts, the rise of eco-Malthusianism shows the anti-human, future-fearing essence of climate-change alarmism.
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| Thursday 19 November 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Too many people? No, too many Malthusians
Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today.
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| Tuesday 6 October 2009 |
Jennie Bristow
Population reduction: a war on women’s bodies
Pro-choice activists must defend women’s reproductive rights against those who say we should curb population growth to save the planet.
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| Thursday 16 July 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Watch TV instead of having sex
Sadhvi Sharma reports from Bombay on one Indian official’s mad scheme for reducing the number of poor people.
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| Thursday 9 July 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Who’s afraid of billions of people?
In the run-up to the UN’s World Population Day, spiked argues against all attempts to cajole, coerce or convince people into having fewer kids.
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| Monday 20 April 2009 |
Adrian Stott
Why we need
population reduction
A trustee of the Optimum Population Trust responds to Brendan O’Neill’s report on their recent conference.
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