For you, to relieve your boredom:

https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-26-2-the-debate-over-world-population-was-malthus-right.html

I thought it was too. Absolute tragedy either way though

Never thought about that before but you’re right! I think that may grind my gears now too!

Just gonna do a little crime Sharon

Did NC schools teach you the Wright Brothers were from NC?

Africa will be no different than all the other emerging economies. As they achieve a certain amount of wealth, health and education, they will temper their population also. Just as every other nation has done.

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People are still propagating this decades after he was wrong?

The limiting factor to agriculture is the need for nitrate and phosphate. Nitrate fertilizer is made industrially from natural gas. Phosphate is largely mined. An emerging problem is that the world's topsoil is deteriorating at a high rate.

It's not a question of lab grown meats and fats: it's the core staple products of wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans. These supply the wold's calories, either directly or indirectly, and they cannot exist without natural gas and mined phosphate. Lab grown foods will still need feed, likely to come from some combo of soy and corn. It doesn't get us around this problem.

When exactly this could be a problem is a subject of speculation. I think Malthus was probably too pessimistic, and was focused on the wrong parts of the issue. Current pessimistic predictions have us either exhausting our easy phosphate supply, or destroying our topsoils, long before we use all the available natural gas.

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Betterment has a cash account but you are better off just buying treasuries yourself or, if you value simplicity, just buying VUSXX.

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Word choice is important, big guy.

That's a really well written article. Thanks!

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Malthus was wrong.

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You think that's an equivalent analogy?

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Next week on Yellowstone: Beth Dutton....

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All I knew about this town was that Adam Driver liked to write poetry there.

Educated, empowered women have less children or no children. Keep empowering women and ensuring they have robust access to contraceptives.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-change-in-the-number-of-children-women-have