Project Survival

Project SurvivalThomas Malthus missed the first environmental teach-out at Northwestern University on January 23. The disaster he had predicted--mass starvation as a result of world population expanding more rapidly than the ability of agriculture to sustain it--had been deferred for 160 years by the Industrial Revolution. But that Friday night in Evanston, Illinois, the same intense sort of people who gathered in London salons to discuss Parson Malthus' gloomy prophecies listened raptly as new...