1) Robert Malthus, who at the end of the 18th
century, published his simple but penetrating theoretical econometric model, «An Essay
on the Principle of Population», that has turned out to have been «off» in the timing of its predictions (but I believe, probably is about «correct» in predicting what we must expect, if some appropriate changes in human behavior fail to accommodate — «in time» — to the reality of the
finite resources of our
planet); and