neo-Malthusianism
noun
a view or doctrine advocating population control, especially by contraception.
neo-Malthusian
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a word derived from
neo-Malthusianism.
Example Sentences
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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
Gibney complains that “many young boomers leapt at the neo-Malthusian nonsense peddled in the 1960s and 1970s by a slightly older generation of writers.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s wildly popular book The Population Bomb popularized neo-Malthusian predictions about humanity’s imminent demise from overpopulation.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2014
Dorling doesn't mention these neo-Malthusian liberals because they don't fit the story he wants to tell, which is that the only limits on population are those imposed by oppressive human institutions.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2013
Many books by neo-Malthusian prophets of doom have attempted to answer these questions.
From Time Magazine Archive
