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Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence
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malthusianism
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Malthusianism is a school of ideas derived from the political/economic thought of the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus , as laid out in his 1798 writings, An Essay on the Principle of Population , which describes how unchecked population growth is exponential ...
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Malthusianism \Mal*thu"sian*ism\, n. The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population. See Malthusian .
Usage examples of malthusianism.
Darwin himself was a follower of Malthus, and his system implies Malthusianism as a foundation.
Then he brought out all that he vaguely knew of Malthusianism, the geometrical increase of births, and the arithmetical increase of food-substances, the earth becoming so populous as to be reduced to a state of famine within two centuries.