Population, technology, and the human environment: a thread through time.

نویسنده

  • R W Kates
چکیده

PLATO OBSERVED IT, THE OLD TESTAMENT TAUGHT IT, and Thomas Robert Malthus feared it. It has been called the principle of plenitude, which "presupposes a richness, an expansiveness of life, a tendency to fill up, so to speak, the empty niches of nature; implicit is the recognition of the great variety of life and perhaps its tendency to multiply."1 For all living things, the bibli cal injunction is clear: "Be fruitful and multiply."2 But for one species of life, humans, the injunction is clearer yet: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."3 Malthus, a Christian cleric, worried over the injunction and conducted a thought experiment to demonstrate how disastrous its pursuit would be:

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Daedalus

دوره 125 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996