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As a bit of trivia, Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) trained as an Anglican minister before becoming a professor of political economy and a widely revered doomsday soothsayer. His 1789 work, “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” predicted that humanity’s biological propensity to reproduce, not so different from that of rabbits, would overwhelm the world’s natural resources. Little did he know that a place to use the toilet would become the scarcest resource of all.