malthusianism

Meanings

• noun

  A theory of population growth that states the human population will eventually outgrow the food supply, leading to famine, disease, and population decline.

  - "Malthusianism is a theory that predicts population growth will eventually outpace food production."
  - "The Malthusian theory of population growth was first proposed by Thomas Robert Malthus in the late 18th century."

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Variants

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Malthusian , Malthusianism , Malthusianisms , Malthusians , neo-Malthusian , neo-Malthusianism , neo-Malthusianisms , neo-Malthusians

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Etymology

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The theory of population growth was named after Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), an English economist and scholar.

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Trivia

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1. Malthusianism was first proposed in Thomas Robert Malthus' book An Essay on the Principle of Population.

2. Malthusianism is sometimes referred to as the 'population bomb' theory.

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1. Population Growth: Malthusianism is a theory that describes the relationship between population growth and resource availability.

2. Demography: Malthusianism is a key concept in demography, the study of human populations.

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Culture

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Malthusianism has been used in various literary works, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where it is used as a reference to population control.

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   - Imagine a graph showing an exponential population growth curve, eventually intersecting a line representing available resources.

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   - Associate Malthusianism with the idea of a population outgrowing its resources, leading to a decline in living standards.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember Malthusianism as 'More And Less: All Humans Ultimately Starve'.

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