Exponential Growth of Populations
Hardin believes that population growth is ill-grasped by broader society, partly due to the failings of history. Malthus said that across the span of history, the secular trend of population growth has always been up. However, this has been masked by oscillations from period to period, concealing its true nature from cursory analysis by humans. Of no help has been professional historical analysis, which Malthus explains thus: 'the histories of mankind taht we possess are histories only of the higher classes.'
Similarly, French naturalist Jean Henri Fabre said: 'History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the name of the King's bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat'.
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