(par 5.2.1.4.1) Thomas Robert Malthus (taken from Wikipedia)
Thomas Robert Malthus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 29 December 1834[1]) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economyand demography.[2] Malthus himself used only his middle name Robert.[3] His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to […]
(Par 5.1.4.1.3) The climate crisis calls for an immediate capping – not decapitating – of capitalism
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-03-the-climate-crisis-calls-for-an-immediate-capping-not-decapitating-of-capitalism/ ANALYSIS By Jeff Rudin Daily Maverick (Johannesburg) 3 MAY 2021 The still-to-be-answered challenge in finding a way out of the impasse of the climate crisis is not what constitutes an ‘entirely new economy’ – the answers are plentiful – but rather how to achieve it. More particularly, this means how to persuade the majority of people to […]
(par 5.1.4.1.3) The ‘fourth industrial revolution’- potential and risks for Africa
https://theconversation.com/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-potential-and-risks-for-africa-75313 By The Conversation March 30, 2017 4.28pm SAST Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum founder, holds his book about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Reuters/Denis Balibouse Ross Harvey, South African Institute of International Affairs Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, argues that the single most important challenge facing humanity today is how to understand and shape […]