For the past 200 years the global population has risen explosively. There were 1bn humans in 1850. There are 7.3bn today. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, humanity has lived in quiet dread that somewhere there is a limit, and the Malthusian horsemen of plague, starvation and war will one day punish our effrontery.
過去200年,全球人口爆炸式成長。1850年,全球有10億人口。如今則是73億。自工業革命以後,人類一直活在默默的恐懼之中,害怕什麼地方存在一個極限,擔心有一天托馬斯•羅伯特•馬爾薩斯(Thomas Robert Malthus)三騎士——瘟疫、饑荒和戰爭——將懲罰我們的膽大妄爲。
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