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Clear exposition, thanks

Very good explanation of Malthus' theory.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3KYc4BteKpoY5o Hans Rosling, the expert statistician. He totally outclasses Thomas Malthus.

Great video!! Thanks for sharing 😊🙌

I hope to use this in my course in Environmental History. There are so FEW useful videos, I am amazed and saddened!

A fascinating video.

No food shortage in Ireland. During the height of the Great Hunger 90 million tons of food was exported from Ireland to England. There was enough food to feed a population of 19 million people in Ireland. The food was witheld from the Irish causing forced starvation. When you try to explain things it's important to research deeply.

A small group of people need to stop hoarding and monopolizing the earth's resources. Currently the millions that are dying of lack of basic nutrition and water - can be easily solved if the resources are distributed properly.

Thank you. Intellectually very inspirational.

thanx this is really helpful

thank you very much for this video sir, definitely helpful when studying economics ^^ Hope you will do some other ones !

This is an exceptional movie. In 25 minutes the producer takes us through our human environmental history. The tone is somber but not polemic. Good for any class. The article link in the other comment is not correct: www.whp-journals.co.uk/GE/Articles/Poll.pdf Thank you Jan Oosthoek.

Thomas Malthus' irrelevant and outdated theories on Population were actually plagiarized from Venetian Monk, Giamarria Ortes in his 1790 treatise, Reflessioni Sulla Populazione Delle Nazioni.

I find it interesting that this study sort of "environmental history" matches heavily the anthropological and archaeological studies perspectives, I've studied.

Population growth did not "drive people to the margins of subsistence", inequality did. Malthus was wrong. Global food supply has consistently outstripped population growth: how we distribute the goods is another matter. Claiming a 21st-century slowing of crop yield growth as support for Malthus is spurious, as population growth is slowing too, and farmers don't plant to beat records, they plant to sell to people - and they plant more to sell to more people. Malthus was an intelligent man nonetheless. Right now as he saw a world with most of the people it'll ever have and more than enough to go round but without the political will or moral quality to share it, shovelling more than a third of its grain into livestock for cheap meat while millions go without basic foodstuffs, he'd be saying, "Oops".

Malthus was right. We did not listen to him, and just look at the state of our planet!

New Exploring Environmental History podcast episode: "The UK National Grid: history of an energy landscape and its impacts" We take electricity for granted and do not think of where it comes from when we switch on a light or use an electrical appliance. But behind the electricity coming out of a wall socket lays an entire energy landscape of poles, wires, electrical substations and power stations. It is imposed on the landscape like a gigantic web, a grid that has become almost part of the natural scenery. Just over a century ago this electricity grid did not exist. Episode 66 of the Exploring Environmental History podcast explores the history of the UK National Grid with Cambridge based PhD candidate Kayt Button. She discusses how the coming of the electricity grid changed people’s lives, its environmental impacts and how the past informs the future development of the grid. Listen to the podcast: www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html#66

Here's the link to the article: www.whp-journals.co.uk/GE/Poll.pdf

A new episode of the Exploring Environmental History podcast has been published. It features an interview with Cameron Muir, author of the recently published book "The broken Promise of Agricultural Progress". The intro of the podcast has been turned into a short video visualising the struggle of Australian farmers with the unpredictable climate and environment of inland Australia. Listen to the podcast episode at www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html#61

I have created a new short video that explores the ideas of Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) and his ideas about the growth of the human population. The video investigates the background of Malthus' ideas, the mathematical basis of it and how it influenced the debate surrounding population growth in the latter half of 20th century. The video concludes with a brief discussion asking whether Malthus' predictions have come true or not in the light of the high world food prices in the first decade of the 21st century. I guess that this video would be useful for students to teach them about Malthus. Feel free to use it in the classroom and for assignments!