Unintended consequences. Modern medicine keeps native population alive. Small pox, cholera, polio etc.
with cure and prevention of these keep folks alive and reproducing. Not long before food becomes a big problem.
Hasbeen
True enough. We use technology (agriculture, medicine, etc) to keep increasing carrying capacity. Eventually the machine breaks and all of that artificial increase vanishes overnight. Malthus can only be denied just so long .. catch up time is coming. Hope I'm dead first 'cause it's going to be a kind of ugly our species has never seen on a worldwide scale.
Tom
