Reinventing Malthus for the 21st Century: 

A Bicentennial Event on Malthus' Original Population Essay 

 

A presentation sponsored by 

Negative Population Growth (NPG) and The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)

held at National Press Club, Washington, DC, July 14, 1997 

 
Featuring:    

Lester Brown  President, Worldwatch Institute	John Rohe  Author, "A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay"
Rupert Cutler  Executive Director, Western Virginia Land Trust	Dan Stein  Executive Director, The Federation for American Immigration Reform
Sharon McCloe Stein  Executive Director, Negative Population Growth

 
 

In 1798, Thomas Malthus first published his revolutionary work, Essay on the Principle of Population. Today the world continues to struggle to find ways to overcome the inherent biological limits of human population growth.  What follows is a transcript of oral presentations and discussions at the National Press Club, July 14, 1997 ö informal ruminations, if you will ö on the life and implications of Malthus' ideas 200 years later.  The discussion features a new book by John Rohe, A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay: Conservation, Population and the Indifference to Limits.    -Sharon McCloe Stein

  
*Due to the length of the transcript, it has been broken into sections according to speaker. To read the transcript in its entirety, simply click on the 'Next' icon at the end of each section.