Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215

So Mathus is Thanos

Amazing episode:)

Its a simple solution really...The Universe is Finite and its resources are finite...kill half the population, its a small price to pay for salvation, the children will have full bellies and see nothing but clear skies...

P.S. Before i saw this i was watching Infinity war soooooooooo ITS A SIGN

Malthus has been debunked. He forgot plants are populations too

what resources we imagine as infinte, aren't?

Famines are man made. Droughts don't exist. Crops can't be wiped out by plant diseases like blight or pests like locusts. What's his name didn't kill himself.

A little disappointed hearing you use "theory" as a synonym for hypothesis. It only adds to the confusion of people who don't understand the difference between a scientific theory and a hypothesis, or lend some implied legitimacy to those who deny proven science by saying "it's just a theory."

yay geo class

Industrial revolution population growth unit in world history sent me here

desaturated the green scrub

humans will die off due to disease and pollution based illnesses before they starve.
it's amazing to me that no one talks about the amount of toxic waste left behind by 7 billion people every day.
it shouldn't be about how many humans can fit on earth's surface, it should be about how much total human destruction earth can put up with.

been thinking about this theory since the Covid-19 virus was declared a pandemic

Its much worst in the developing countries/emerging economies. For one the Philippines, it will suffer the most considering its limited resources.

is this what happening now to our world?

The human destroy the Planet

And unlike all the true theories

Oh no

Great video. Solar & battery future

2020 CoronaVirus 😷

Corona enters group

Malthus: Told ya!

Commons got anything to do with common law?

Who’s watching this in quarantine?

who got the answers for the crash course questions

the future holds a quarter of the human population declining due to a virus out-break
i sence violence hunger and pain(not actully hunger i just said that to make it seem frightning)

Are you able to share a bibliography with sources for the information presented in this video? Please, I would very much like to read. Thank you.

Mr. Malthus was wrong underestimating tech and everything, but he also didn't know that Bill Gates & friends come into the equation to mitigate the gap of his mistakes.

dude, you looked so young back then. What happened to you? :D

Underlying assumption is correct. Earth is a finite resource and no technology in the foreseeable future will save us from ourselves.

I think someone should let Bill Gates in on this common sense information.

the problem is: our ability to grow food only improves linearly, while the population is growing exponentialy, if you know maths you'll see that a big starving is inevitable

Malthus is more like a mathematical theory. Given 1. Population grows exp 2. Resources grow linear, Then People must die. Therefore Malthus is totally correct. It's just that the prerequisites of his theory are not satisfied yet.

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Nobody: Hey what if we did this in the 21st Century?
Margaret Thatcher: I got u fam.

Wow.. i wanna be so good of a teacher one day

21 century Malthus turned into MCU Thanos.

I think that what he was trying to say is that with whatever innovation may arise that it can only have a scaling effect on the amount of food available for consumption while population can increase as a function of its size. The social and ethical issues is a whole other bag of worms.

He was right, and you cannot simply accept it. More population means more poor and middle class people. Also what technology has achieved is written off by our foolish mistakes

Jeez poor Malthus. The most misunderstood thinker in history... Imagine if other thinkers got the Malthus treatment:
He wasn't making a prediction. He was noticing a paradox. If food grows linearly, but population grows exponentially, then humanity is always a few generations away from mass starvation.... and yet somehow, we're still here.

He wasn't making some crazy prediction for a dismal future; he was just stating an observable factual phenomenon.

He was right. Countries with a huge population have so many people starving to death or/and living in inequal economic system

But why does the world need so many people John? You may be right that technology will allow us to reproduce indefinitely but you don't factor in the damage to other species, the planet, or the ethics of overpopulation.

I worry that powerful and wealthy people will try to cull the majority of world population based on this antiquated and untested hypothesis.

coolmathgames

Wrong. Innovations & an efficient allocation of resources allow us to use our scarce resources in such an effective manner that they work for an ever larger populace. We're no where near over population. Even when we think we are we always find a solution. Many nations are just absolutely terrible at utilizing the resources at their disposal, predominately because of government intervention the malthusians speak so highly of.
Stuff like nuclear energy provide a practically infinite supply of energy.

Thank you!

You are amazing giving us all this knowledge and insight. Plus, your fast talking always annoys my roommates. Thanks for both 👍.

I'm almost a decade late, but killing fascists' hasn't gone out of style.

So the future is materially worse, but not awful. Target rich environment.

Oh John you don't know how happy I am to see your face. I have to watch these presentations for a college class on sustainability and these awful flash presentation and then I see John Green's beautiful face when I click on the first link. YES YES YES. You don't know how much this means to me.

Great stuff

Don't worry about starving to death, the heat will kill us first.

Mathis was a demon possessed wicked person