Daniel Quinn's Food Race hypothesis

Systems Thinking and The Food Race » The Anthropik Network:

"One of the most basic concepts of the New Tribal Revolution is the realization of the Food Race. Essentially the Food Race is the name Daniel Quinn gave to the observation that every year civilization grows more food, which is inevitably followed by civilization being made of more people. In order to feed this excess of people we then grow more, which in turn causes an increase in the population. Daniel Quinn called this an 'experiment run 10,000 times,' which might actually be an understatement. But suffice it to say that we've tried this quite a few times now with no variation on the result."