Ray Percival

I think that Ray Percivals article, Malthus and His Ghost When He Formulated His Theory, Malthus Ignored the smartness of Man (August. 18), in which he attempts to silence the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus and his pro-population-control fanatics, the neo-Malthusians is a work of art.Paul Ehrlich and the other nay-sayers portray man as a gluttonous consumer. Yet, by default, every healthy human being is natural with two hands every stomach comes with two hands attached. As Ray Percival asserts, by producing more than than he consumes man has worked his way up from the near-universal poverty that was his fate two centuries ago. In my opinion, only one joust in Percivals article needs to be revised.In his dismissal of Ehrlichs simple(a) declaration that more sight = more famine, he suggests that there allow been at most 15 million famine deaths in this century. In fact, there has been nearly twice that in China alone. Most of which occurred from 1959 to 1962, following the Great Leap Forward, a campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists amongst 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale awkward communes, to address Chinas industrial and agricultural problems.It was the scheming of men, not the impulses of nature that lead to mass starvation after the Great Leap Forward. This, of course, is a beaten(prenominal) story, told in the Ukrainian famine, the Cambodian famine. We live in an age in which governments, more specifically one-party Communalist rgimes, deliberately cause famines. Percivals optimism to the highest degree the ability of free human populations to feed them could not be more accurate it takes significant malicious geniuses to create economic systems and policies which render people incapable of providing for their basic needs.The population-control advocates have come to treat their body of teaching more like a religious system than a scientific theory. It is impossible to coax anyone operating wi thin neo-Malthusian constraints of its falsity by sage or pragmatic argument otherwise. They are intensely hardened in their narrow-mindedness by the abundance of funds to which they have access, since they have managed to convince many governments and foundations that they hold the key to mankinds success as a species simplification the numbers of living, breathing and loving human beings.