Question
This person incorrectly theorized that food production would only increase arithmetically. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this economist who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population. This person names a “trap” or“catastrophe” where population decline is triggered when population growth surpasses food production.
ANSWER: Thomas Malthus [accept Malthusian trap or Malthusian catastrophe; accept neo-Malthusian]
[10m] Two Stanford scientists with this surname claimed “the battle to feed all of humanity is over” and incorrectly predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s in their book The Population Bomb.
ANSWER: Ehrlich [accept Paul Ralph Ehrlich; accept Ann Howland Ehrlich]
[10h] Malthusian views on population growth are often opposed to this position championed by Julian Simon. This position argues that population growth will always be supported due to continued technological advances.
ANSWER: cornucopianism [or cornucopian; accept boomsters; reject “catastrophism”]
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Summary
2024 Booster Shot (Columbia) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 17% | 17% |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt) | 03/02/2024 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL) | 03/09/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo) | 02/23/2024 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
Ohio State | Michigan C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Ohio State | Case Western | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State | Case Western | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Iowa State | Penn State B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Vassar | Iowa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
North Carolina | Penn State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan C | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL | Michigan A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Ohio State | Michigan C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Ohio State | Case Western | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State | Case Western | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |