Malthus And His Ghost

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Importantly, both the video file “The Story of Stuff” and the article titled “Malthus and His Ghost” have strong and clear bias towards a certain idea or process. Within the article “Malthus and His Ghost” the author clearly and passionately expresses the faults he has found with Malthus’s view of population pertaining to resources and society. Moreover, within the video “The Story of Stuff” the author blatantly expresses her dissatisfaction with the process by which companies produce, consume, and dispose of products. Evidently the author does this by revealing that companies are irresponsibly exploiting natural resources and are disregarding the deadly toxins that are produced when constructing products. Even though the author greatly exaggerates

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