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On the other hand, Thomas Malthus had little hope for the future. He believed that the world’s population will increase faster than the production of food. The human race, he believed, would starve and there would be periods of chaos. Malthus said that the population increases at an exponential rate, nearly doubling amount. There is no way food growth would be able to catch up with population growth. Malthus’ solution was “War, Famine, and Plagues”. He believed that was the only way to decrease population and hopefully salvage the human race. These events would increase death rates liberating the world of disaster. Malthus tried to persuade lower classes form creating children and from marriage. At that time the lower classes were considered to be given higher wages, which would increase the makings of children and marriages. Thomas Malthus pleaded with everyone to make a change in order to decrease population.

In 1798 utilitarian Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population as an argument against an utopian society based on social and economic equality. Malthus believed that if the human population is left unchecked then the population would outgrow the resources necessary to maintain the population. Malthus’s argued that the population will continue to grow and the burden will unavoidably put on the poor population. However, the inequality of population would be a good thing in terms of controlling the population.

Thomas Malthus said that population would grow faster than the food supply until problems made it decline.

Malthus was an economic pessimist to those who disagreed with him and a realist to his followers. He viewed poverty as something that was inevitable because, "If the only check to population is misery, the result of any improvement is ultimately to enable a larger population than before to live in misery, so that resource-improvement actually increases the sum of misery and that betterment of the lot of mankind is impossible without stern limits on reproduction." This means that there is overpopulation, and the natural check of misery (poverty) is coming into effect in order to balance out overpopulation. However, by trying to help poverty, we are (according to Malthus) making the situation worse. In the short run, there seems to be an improvement because those poor people are better off and can do well. This situation would lead to a larger population than before, and therefore would lead to a greater number of people becoming impoverished. He therefore shunned charities and proposed that by leaving poverty alone, and by moral restraint and vice (contraception and population control); the situation would take care of itself. "If the only check to population is misery, the population will grow until it is miserable enough to check its growth."

The essay opened my eyes on what Malthus was trying to explain about the population but although I understand what he is trying to say, I will not be using this article. I do not believe that this article will help get my point across as much as I would like it to.

In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus defended the proposition that, “had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.” Labeled a ‘Malthusian trap’ after the demographer’s work, the theoretical principle holds that, because population increases exponentially, while agricultural output increases arithmetically, periodic premature deaths among the population will be caused by a lack of sustenance. Had a population never overcome the reoccurring demographic trap of an equal increase in food and population, Malthus contends, the life of man as a subsistence farmer would continue to be, as succinctly

Garrett Hardin’s essay, “Tragedy of the Commons” has a view of the population of the world different than any other. In his essay, he writes about how the world is biophysically finite. He believes that the more people there are the less each person’s share will be. This was a main point in his essay. He goes on to talk about how agricultural cannot help fix this problem and how we can’t both maximize the number of people and satisfy every desire or "good" of everyone since every person has a different good/desire.

This essay deals with Thomas Malthus and the first two chapters of his “Essay on the Principle of Population”. At first I will provide a short biographical note on Malthus and I will also mention his main achievements. Then, a summary of Malthus' main ideas of the first two chapters of mentioned work follows. Afterward, the essay concludes with a personal note.

Thomas wrote “An Essay on the Principle of Population” which introduced the idea that population when unchecked increased geometrically whereas proper existence arithmetically at best. Malthus had a system to regulate population which used preventative and positive checks. These checks reduced birth rate and increased death rate to keep the population in check. Examples of preventative checks were moral restraint and positive included famine, misery, plague, and war. Furthermore, Malthus instilled the idea that poverty and misery were natural punishments to the lower classes and encouraged restrain from reproduction. As well as no to aid the poor, for it would allow more children to survive ultimately worsening the hunger problem. These ideas were later contributed to the harsh Poor Law Amendment of 1834.

Another criticism of Malthus that is only alluded to in the text is his tendency to heap an undue amount of blame on the lower classes for their role in population growth:

One of the arguments in malthus’s works was his idea that depression did not fall evenly on each of the classes in society. He believed that the poor brought many of these problems to society by procreating with out being able to support a family, and because of that, becoming dependant on others to support them, therefore diminishing the food supply more rapidly. He also assumed that poverty and misery in the lower classes were inevitable and that those people were the majority in every society. He argued that all attempts to lessen poverty and suffering, no matter how well intended and no matter how well thought out, would only worsen things. Malthus thought that the human condition could not be improved for two reasons. First, he believed that people were driven by an avid desire for sexual pleasure. This led to population increases which, if left unchecked, would grow geometrically – 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. Second, Malthus believed that as more land was used in cultivation, each new piece of land would be able to grow less and less food then the previous plot of land.

Malthus is accurate in that his ideas have been practically supported in that there have been (and still are to this day) famines, for example in sub-Saharan Africa, there are many water-shortages and droughts, such as those in Africa, Australia and California, resource shortages- in terms of non-renewable resources (i.e. coal, oil) and the endangering of species such as different fish as well as climate change. Although there are ways in which some of these problems are now being conquered.

Thomas Malthus was an English scholar. Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 explaining the Malthusian theory; Malthusianism is the idea the world’s population will grow exponentially while food supply and resources will grow at an arithmetic rate and, therefore, not be able to keep up with the quantitative means for the global population. Malthus believed that population growth and food supply still needed to be kept in check, promoting population control through preventative methods, otherwise a catastrophic event would take place, such as disease, starvation, war, etc., that would cause the global population to result to a lower and more sustainable level (Eltis 2000). Neo-Malthusianism is the advocacy for programs on methods of population control, such as contraceptive use. There was the Malthusian League, a British organization that advocated the practice of contraception and educating the public about the importance of family planning. It was credited by some for the drop in birth rates in Britain and many other European countries. Malthus was a devout Christian and believed that

In 1798, the famous English economist Thomas Robert Malthus published the wildly successful An Essay on the Principle of Population. Within his work, Malthus examined a myriad of economic topics from labor supply to wage rates, but most notably to modern economics and population observation, Thomas Malthus found that food production tends to increase arithmetically; while, population size tends to increase at a geometric (or exponential) rate (Malthus, 1798).

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