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Rob Lyons
We need a bit more hunger to end poverty
Claims that climate change will cause mass starvation could actually make it harder to feed the world.
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| Monday 28 January 2013 |
Patrick Hayes
David Attenborough’s demographic determinism
The TV naturalist is still banging on about there being ‘too many people’, just when others fret about declining population.
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| Thursday 8 November 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
The greens showing their true colours
The far-right-sounding ideas of Swiss greens EcoPop display the misanthropy of Malthusian thought.
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| Thursday 12 July 2012 |
Tom Bailey
How neo-Malthusians demonise dissent
In branding those who disagree with them ‘deniers’, the overpopulation lobby reveals its allergy to debate.
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| Thursday 1 March 2012 |
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
Why there’s a crisis of compassion
When society doesn’t respect wisdom and experience, is it any wonder carers don't respect the elderly?
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| Monday 31 October 2011 |
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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