Dick Smith and Malthusian lunacy

Dick Smith says:

"If we keep growing by 2.1 per cent a year in population, that doubles our population in 30 years, it means in 220 years' time we would have over one billion people here and no one believes we could feed one billion"

Every single person who has predicted a Malthusian catastrophe has failed. The reality is that, given our future on other planets, there is no limit to human population. In fact, the higher the population, the higher our standards of living. In the middle ages, when humans still were only living, on average, about 30 years, the population was less than 500 million.

Even if there were a limit to human population, which there is not, the market would resolve it via price rises and improved contraceptive technology.