What is malthusian?

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What is malthusian?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

:of or relating to Malthus or to his theory that population tends to increase at a faster rate than its means of subsistence and that unless it is checked by moral restraint or disaster (as disease, famine, or war) widespread poverty and degradation inevitably result

Answer 3

The theory that population increases more rapidly than the food supply unless held in check by epidemics, wars, or similar phenomena.

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Answer 4

a follower of Malthus

Answer 5

The belief that Population will always sort itself out through wars, famine, disease etc. Classically at this point one always points out that hitherto he's always been proved wrong he made no allowance for improvements in farming, new technologies and science and the opening up of hitherto unused prairies etc. However ultimately he must prove right, be the figure 50 Billion or 200Billion there will come a point of maximum human population.