Malthus
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noun
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Malthus argued that “the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce sustenance for man.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Ehrlich was often labeled a neo-Malthusian, a reference to the 18th-century British political economist Thomas Malthus, best known for “An Essay on the Principle of Population.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
When Tanton blended ecology with eugenics and immigration, he was digging up the two-century-old principles of Thomas Malthus, who first theorized that human population growth would lead to poverty and suffering.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024
Pessimists such as Malthus failed to comprehend this process, which has come to be known as the “demographic transition.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2022
An Essay on the Principle of Population was written by the economist Thomas Robert Malthus in 1798.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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