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Philosophy of Overpopulation: Malthus vs. Marx on Population
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | Human overpopulation is causing severe problems to both the planet Earth and humanity itself (issues such as climate change, environmental degradation, resource depletion, mass species extinction, water scarcity, food insecurity, political instability, extremism, forced migration, resource-driven wars, and more). Yet still, it is largely ignored and dismissed topic in the public and political domains, despite being identified as important by many great thinkers in human history. Among them, Malthus and Marx gathered the largest following. This presentation highlights and compares the Malthusian and Marxist approaches, and neo-Malthusian and neo-Marxist approaches respectively, as they were enshrined into the discourses of population conferences of 1974 and 1984. The presentation underlines the importance of the 1994 conference in Cairo, which bridged both approaches, as it acknowledged the importance of family planning and development and, thus, solved the 'demography vs. economy' clash. However, given that the total human population keeps growing, the presentation proclaims the need to go 'beyond Cairo' and target all roots of population growth, including wanted fertility, and that is by the reproductive ethics of small(er) families. |
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