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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