The Marxist Lens: Is Overpopulation a Myth?

This videos tackles the Malthusian population problem which has somehow survived centuries of scrutiny and remains central to mainstream perspectives on the environment and sustainability.

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Thanks to William Cleary (@confidence270 on Twitter) for contributing English subs!

Texts and Citations:
Malthusianism
An Essay on the Principle of Population, Malthus
The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich

Global food production
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-hunger_b_1463429
https://www.worldvision.org/hunger-news-stories/food-waste

Population trends
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/what-goes-up-population-crisis-wrong-fertility-rates-decline

Leftist critique of Malthusianism
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/04/30/ecological-marxism-vs-environmental-neo-malthusianism/
The Population Myth, Murray Bookchin
Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, Chris Williams

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