Brilliant article on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by Jerry Bowyer at Forbes:
Guess whose ideas Charles Dickens put into the mouth of his antagonist Ebenezer Scrooge.
Go here to read the brilliant rest. The power of A Christmas Carol is the age old Christmas themes of redemption and renewal. The World has much evil in it, but there is also much good. Scrooge has spent his life overwhelmed by the evil and has grown old and cynical. Christmas taught him to cast aside his cynicism, to rejoice in the good and to do what he can to help. Fundamentally A Christmas Carol is a message of optimism both in humanity and in the future. As we remember at Christmas the joy of God coming among us, as one of us, that is a message the World desperately needs at this hour. God bless us, everyone.
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The Neo-Malthusians have been unfortunate in their predictions.
I remember coming across the 1954 year book, published by the government of the (then) Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Entitled, “A Problem of People,” it explained that, flooded with refugees from the Communist mainland, the population already exceeded the colony’s maximum “carrying capacity” of one million. It recommended a major resettlement programme, in East Africa and the organization of a programme of international aid, under the auspices of the UN.
In the event, HMG did nothing and, when Britain relinquished sovereignty in 1997, the population was over seven million, with a GDP per capita in excess of $50,000.
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