. . . and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, no less.
Commodities and basic resources (like water and good arable land) are in increasingly short supply worldwide, notes the Journal. And while we’ve managed to avoid the wholesale disasters Malthusians have regularly warned against in the two centuries since Thomas Malthus [...]
Posts Tagged ‘population’
- Malthus: he’s back!
Posted in economics, national security, tagged climate change, innovation, Joseph Stiglitz, Malthus, population on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
– on the environment, Southern Baptists get religion
Posted in religion, tagged action, creation care, global warming, population, Southern Baptist on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A group of prominent Southern Baptist leaders today declared that their denomination has been ‘too timid’ on the issue of climate change.
The authors take pains to note that they’re not necessarily saying that humans are responsible for Global Warming. But they do make the following observation:
“There is undeniable evidence that the earthâwildlife, water, [...]