Malthusianism

Cultural  

1. A pessimistic viewpoint on population and world resources, based on the doctrines of Thomas Malthus. Malthusianism holds that population tends to increase faster than the supply of food, thus preventing the steady progress of mankind. Malthus advocated premarital chastity, late marriage, and sexual abstinence as partial solutions.

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Example Sentences

Pop culture has even spun Malthusianism into a meme, if you know what Soylent Green is made of.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2022

Economists consider Malthusianism, at least as understood in modern times, to be a discredited doctrine.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2011

French industry seems to operate on an inverted system of Malthusianism, holding down production to keep pace with the population.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was the origin of his worst difficulties, to be intensified, ere long, by his defence of Malthusianism.

From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Besant, Annie Wood

The question to be solved is not one of Malthusianism, “projected efficiency,” nor ethics. 

From War of the Classes by London, Jack