Progress and the planet’s limits: some lessons for the 21st century from the debate between Godwin and Malthus
A debate emerged at the end of the 18th century; essentially, the same one we are now discussing regarding the limits of growth. Condorcet (1793–1794) asserted that human improvement would never stop. He ruled out the possibility of the finitude of the planet becoming a barrier with arguments that,...
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2018
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