What Every American,

and every citizen of the first world economy,
should know is how their economy has so far
beaten the Malthusian maths of world consumption;
the oil extracted from the ground for the richest
to live best is equivalent to every person on the planet
having two and half slaves. Because people in the third
world breed more often and live on far less, their share
of the inanimate slavery of energy from the ground
will always be a fraction of the average slave energy.
The world poor will inherit the logic of Malthus's tragedy.