Here's what Prouty writes about Malthusianism:
The East India Company founded Haileybury College in England to
train its young employees in business, the military arts, and
the special skills of religious missionaries. By 1800 it became
necessary to initiate the task of making an Earth inventory, that
is, to find out what was out there in the way of natural resources,
population, land, and other tangible assets. The first man
assigned the official responsibility for this enormously vital
job was the head of the Department of Economics of Haileybury
College.
This man was Thomas Malthus, who, in 1805, postulated the idea
that humanity is multiplying its numbers at a geometric rate
while increasing its life-support capability at only an
arithemetic rate. As a result, it has been universally concluded
by the power elite that only a relatively few humans are destined
to survive successfully in generations to come. The Malthusian
theory thus provides a rationalization for the necessity of
somehow getting rid of large numbers of people, any people,
in any way -- even genocide. With the Malthusian theory as
the power elite's philosophical guide, this becomes an
acceptable objective because, they believe, Earth will never
be able to support the progeny of so many anyhow. From this
point of view, genocide -- then as now -- is accepted as all
but inevitable. Who cares and why be concerned?
Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (USA Air Force, Ret.)
'JFK' (1992)
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