title: Malthus redux, and still blind in the same eye.
abstract: Gowdy & Krall (G&K) essentially recapitulate Malthus's classic argument for ecological pessimism in modern biological dress. Their reasoning also reproduces Malthus's blindness to the implications of technological innovation. Agriculture might have suppressed human individualism as G&K insist, but technology has tended to foster it. This complicates human ecological prospects in a non-Malthusian way, and it might additionally provide the resources for deliverance from disaster.
authors: Department of Economics,Waikato Management School,University of Waikato,Private bag 3105,Hamilton 3240,New Zealand.don.ross931@gmail.com.
authors: Don
authors: D
authors: Ross
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003710:Demography; D004190:Disasters; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012942:Social Sciences