Ataques de pánico maltusianos

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My guess is that Malthusian panics are part of humanity’s coping mechanism. The problems to which Malthusians point are almost always real problems, but the solutions they advocate are usually not the way out. Malthusians classically go for big interventionist fixes, when humanity’s most efficient method of solving problems is to nibble them to death rather than swallow them whole. Billions of people change their behavior; innovators perceive the economic rewards of addressing a growing problem and little by little, bite by bite, we nibble the problem down to size.

In its lunge for the grand global solution, the climate change movement was making the classic Malthusian mistake. It was relying on a single dramatic solution to a vast problem, rather than working to prepare the way for a multitude of tiny fixes.