will increase or double every 25 years.(Thompson:1953).The projection had been surpassed,given the application of technology to agriculture that skyrocketed birth rates as predicted,with far more evidence than in his time.In the chapter 7 of his book'Seeds of Privation'i was able to capture first the quality of Al Gore's population ideology as farcical and hurriedly made up not back up with intense research.It is true,he entertained the same ignorance,as did those critics of the Malthus time.Now i quote him once again(pg.127)'.But with the scientific revolution in the seventh and eighteenth centuries,the human population began surging,and for the first time,it seemed possible that the population might soon outstrip the ability of the environment to yield enough food.This fear was articulated at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the English political economist Thomas Malthus;that he was famously wrong has been due to a series of remarkable innovations in the science of agricultural production."
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