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To: RMF who wrote (69532)	3/12/2014 4:53:01 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation Recommended By greatplains_guy Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

lead to a close examination of the advancements in medical and agricultural science A miniscule number of our kind lumped along, near starvation, for about 200,000 years before slowly beginning discovery of a new social organization that allowed evolution in an unknowable expanding infinity of intertwined orders -- including your two examples. That process worked better is some places than others, some places not at all. Our population can and WILL keep growing but our resources are relatively finite Malthus first popularized that idea two centuries past. Based on evidence to that point it seemed a good guess. He, among others, had no idea what wonders Smith's "invisible hand" might render. The poorest have lately been beneficiaries where market liberalism prevails to some extent or another. And, as wealth increases fecundity drops. That would seem to lead to happy circumstance. I've long been fascinated by examination of that recent phenomena. Conclusions of the finest thinkers often run counter to what a bright individual might reach on their own.