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To: Lane3 who wrote (6906)	12/15/2005 10:52:22 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) of 542197

The problem with this review is that the person is so hostile to the point in the book, they don't actually get what the book is saying. "Apparently there is nothing at all necessary about Malthusian collapse, if you’ve got tractors and fertilizers." This cracked me up. Because the illustration is simply taking a "bottled" situation, and applying the Malthus formula to it. If you put too many people in a bottle (call it Rwanda) without mechanized Ag, then something goes wrong, and the population will crash. That this could be "prevented" with mech agriculture, doesn't disprove the thesis; it merely means that those of us who live in countries with mechanized ag can expect things to go on longer, before we are treated to a Malthusian episode (and won't THAT be fun!). It would be a much more interesting article, if the writer had been a bit more logical. As it is it tells us more about the writer, than it does about any real problems with the text.

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