Are Malthus’s Predicted 1798 Food Shortages Coming True? (Extended version)
August 24th, 2008 | by Scientific American Topic - Green TechnologyIn 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus famously predicted that short-term gains in living standards would inevitably be undermined as human population growth outstripped food production, and thereby drive living standards back toward subsistence. We were, he argued, condemned by the tendency of population to grow geometrically while food production would increase only arithmetically. [More]
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