This is so good I have to share this with you.  I don't subscribe to an economist view of the world. After all, I am a humanist which makes me by nature NOT an economist.  That is I see things in terms of being, rather than just being an agent of consumption and production. 

The point here is that the REAL issue behind the hampster is not unrealistic economic assumptions, but the unrealistic human population growth assumptions.  Anyone out there that is awake?  Houston we have a problem...