Malthus
Original: Malthus on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Two figures stand as silhouettes against a black, starry night sky.
First figure: WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING IN MALTHUSIAN THEORIES WHEN THEY KEEP NOT PANNING OUT?
Second figure: THE NUMBER OF PROBLEMS THAT SEEM MALTHUSIAN GROWS GEOMETRICALLY, WHILE THE NUMBER OF MALTHUS DEBUNKINGS ONLY GROWS LINEARLY.
Votey:
The two silhouetted figures stand on dark ground. A speech bubble points to one of them.
Speech bubble: FUCK YOU.
Two figures stand as silhouettes against a black, starry night sky.
First figure: WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP BELIEVING IN MALTHUSIAN THEORIES WHEN THEY KEEP NOT PANNING OUT?
Second figure: THE NUMBER OF PROBLEMS THAT SEEM MALTHUSIAN GROWS GEOMETRICALLY, WHILE THE NUMBER OF MALTHUS DEBUNKINGS ONLY GROWS LINEARLY.
Votey:
The two silhouetted figures stand on dark ground. A speech bubble points to one of them.
Speech bubble: FUCK YOU.
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing two people as black silhouettes standing against a starry night sky. One asks, "Why do people keep believing in Malthusian theories when they keep not panning out?" The other replies in a large speech bubble, "The number of problems that seem Malthusian grows geometrically, while the number of Malthus debunkings only grows linearly." Votey (aftercomic): the same two silhouetted figures stand on dark ground, and a speech bubble simply reads, "Fuck you."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.