Is the Human Population Unsustainable? (with Dr Eleanor Shaw)

Episode 100 - Thomas Malthus. A discussion with Dr Eleanor Shaw about the influence of the cleric Thomas Mathus, who devised a theory relating population to resource use to argue progress was fundamentally unsustinable. We discuss the man and his ideas and how it informed British imperial policy during the Irish Famine. We then discuss how the ideas morphed into environmentalist ideology and formed the basis of the birth control movement. We discuss the Malthusian influence in Paul Ehrlich's 'Population Bomb' and organic farming. We discuss the political causes of famine and discuss whether anti-WEF protesters have some awareness of this. We also talk about Barry Josephson's expressed intent to 'get rid of poor people as a whole' in correspondence with Jefferey Epstein. Novara Media on Epstein and Josephson:    • The SICKEST Epstein Email   Scribehound: https://www.scribehound.com/countrysi... Follow the Insta:   / farming_explained   Join the Discord:   / discord   Support the channel: https://buymeacoffee.com/farmingexpla... Read my research article on farmer's attitudes to scientific farming during WW2: https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic... 0:00 - intro 2:18 - who was Malthus? 4:30 - What did he believe? 8:50 - why is he relevant? 13:57 - Ireland and Famine 18:47 - The Free Market 26:06 - Population control 31:51 - The Epstein Files 34:27 - Malthusian science 39:26 - The Population Bomb 43:01 - role of the political 49:17 - Malthusians today 54:00 - Nature good, progress bad 55:46 - Was he a good guy?