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http://nyc.theoildrum.com [The Oil Drum: New York City] It was also the central observation that underlies Darwin's theory: the fact, first noticed by Malthus, that every species on the planet, including humans, produces far more offspring in each generation than nature can support. Coming as late as we do - nearly a century and a half after Darwin's "Origin" - we have the luxury of seeing at a glance what Darwin saw: that the pressure of so much excess population is a harsh but efficient test of the value of accidental variations in any species.

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http://peakenergy.blogspot.com [Peakenergy.blogspot.com] Peak Energy: August 2005: Long-time conservative William F Buckley's comments on peak oil have gathered quite a lot of attention, given the lack of the usual right wing mantra about the markets solving all problems or the CERA style denial of the problem. Even in my most right wing period I've always found Buckley a dubious character - there is a great scene in "Manufacturing Consent" where Buckley is debating Noam Chomsky on a TV program (in a different age where there was actually some diversity of opinion in the mainstream media) with Chomsky sitting upright and looking serious and concerned about the topic while Buckley was slouched so far into his seat that he was almost lying down and maintained a continuous sneer throughout the show.

Anthropik.com[Anthropik.com] The Opposite of Malthus » The Anthropik Network: Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of that Charles Darwin, said, "It may well be that it would take hundreds of generations for the progenitive instinct to develop in this way, but if it should do so, nature would have taken her revenge, and the variety Homo contracipiens would become extinct and would be replaced by the variety Homo progenitivus."

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