Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Thomas Malthus by John Linnell. Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY No one uses “Malthusian” as a ...
The dogma of overpopulation is in search of a justification. The reasons offered to be concerned about overpopulation have repeatedly shifted, but have also been repeatedly disconfirmed. In his 1789 ...
(THE CONVERSATION) No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” ...