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'The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man' Thomas Malthus's provocative and prescient 1798 work on the dangers of population growth attracted support and violent criticism in equal measure, and has been praised, misinterpreted and remade ever since. Malthus argued, with clarity and logic, that the rate of population growth will always outstrip food production, and that social betterment comes from population control - a perennially relevant argument amid today's concerns over global resources. This new edition of the Essay also includes other writings and diary extracts that show Malthus's intellectual development after his landmark treatise. Edited with an Introduction by Robert Mayhew No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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His essential premise is that we will run out of food because the population grows at an exponential scale, and food production grows at an arithmetic scale.
His writings go much beyond this and go deep into many issues that society faces. There are sections that are difficult to follow because he took up a lot of space in rebutting one Mr. Godwin!
When you look at the world on a global scale, it's easy to dismiss Malthus' prophecy, that we will run out of food. However, he did address one social problem - that wealth is not equally distributed. Similarly, food is not equally distributed. So, we have undernutrition and malnutrition both running wild on the planet.
Further, he could not know of the industrial revolution, and could not predict the rise of modified food. We may not have run out of food, but we have seen an increasing number of people with various allergies.
He has been prescient in many ways. (