Thomas Friedman Channels Thomas Malthus

Claudia Rosett | 9:39 PM on June 07, 2011

From NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, author of “The Earth is Flat, comes a column headlined “The Earth is Full.” It’s all about resources, C02, and dire crisis as “our system of growth and our system of nature hit the wall at once” — and how many planets are needed to accommodate a human race which Friedman says is eating into its own future. I’d be more worried if it didn’t sound eerily similar to the 18th century’s Rev. Thomas Malthus, who posited in 1798 that food supplies grow arithmetically while population grows geometrically, and from this concluded, more or less as Friedman now suggests, that the earth was full. It’s a big earth, and mankind has a track record of remarkable invention — be comforted, it may yet work out.

For media inquiries, please contact [email protected] Claudia Rosett is widely recognized as a ground-breaking reporter on corruption at the United Nations. Her investigative reporting skills, drawn from three decades as a journalist covering international affairs, led her to expose the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, the worst financial fraud in the history of humanitarian relief. Ms. Rosett worked from 1984-2002 as a staff editorialist, editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared before six U.S. House and Senate Committees and Subcommittees to testify on subjects including U.N.-related corruption and the Iran-North Korea strategic alliance. Her work on Oil-for-Food earned Claudia the 2005 Eric Breindel Award and the Mightier Pen award, and for her on-site coverage of China's Tiananmen Square in 1989, she won an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. She is a Foreign Policy Fellow with the Independent Women's Forum, and writes a column on foreign affairs for Forbes.com.

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Thomas Friedman Channels Thomas Malthus

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