If people in the past had reacted to their 100% certainty that Malthusian predictions of imminent global starvation were about to be reached, then a lot of us would not be alive today.
If they had reacted by limiting technological progress (as you suggest) then we would almost certainly not be talking together over the Internet, and may have burned every single tree on the planet striving to maintain our civilisation without technological progress.
Luckily they did not, and our technological progress included a "green revolution" that managed to produce massively more food on the same land. Technology can and does solve problems like this.
Global government is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I live in a country with three layers of government (local, state and federal) and adding a fourth would just multiply the waste, corruption and nepotism.
If they had reacted by limiting technological progress (as you suggest) then we would almost certainly not be talking together over the Internet, and may have burned every single tree on the planet striving to maintain our civilisation without technological progress.
Luckily they did not, and our technological progress included a "green revolution" that managed to produce massively more food on the same land. Technology can and does solve problems like this.
Global government is a nightmare I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I live in a country with three layers of government (local, state and federal) and adding a fourth would just multiply the waste, corruption and nepotism.