78 Malthus' Main Thesis Still Holds 



bread as above listed, seem to be able to offer our less fortunate 

 neighbors little more than a pious hope that they will be able to eat 

 granite some fine day a century or so hence. This offer of stone for 

 bread out-Antoinettes Marie with a vengeance. If this is the best we 

 can offer the earth's people in this time of crisis, surely we will have 

 nobody but ourselves to blame when the deluge engulfs us. 



