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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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| Thursday 18 August 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Sterilise yourself and win a car!
The bribing of Indians to stop having babies is not that different to the moral blackmail used by Western Malthusians.
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| Wednesday 20 July 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Why not celebrate the birth of Harper Seven?
Ignore the miserable misanthropists who think the Beckhams set a bad example by having too many children.
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| Wednesday 6 July 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Let’s just all SQUASH together
Squatters once fancied themselves as radical. Now they have embraced the low horizons of the political elite.
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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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| 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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| Wednesday 17 February 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The ‘taboo’ they just can’t stop talking about
Article after article after article now tells us that human overpopulation of the planet is the Great Unmentionable. Hmm, something doesn’t add up.
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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 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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| Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Let’s cap this myth of overpopulation
The Balanced Migration group moans that Britain will need seven new cities to cope with an influx of immigrants. Well, let’s start building then.
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| Friday 30 May 2008 |
Frank Furedi
The rise and rise of the New Malthusianism
Fatal Misconception is a thorough study of the history of the population-control lobby – but it fatally underestimates how influential the new green-leaning Malthusianism has become.
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