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
while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical. Malthus believed
there were two types of “checks” that could then reduce the population,
returning it to a more sustainable level. He believed there were “preventive
checks” such as moral restraints and restricting marriage against persons
suffering poverty and defects. Malthus believed in “positive checks”, which
lead to ‘premature’ death: disease, starvation, war, resulting in what is
called a Malthusian catastrophe. The catastrophe would return population to a
lower, more “sustainable”, level. The term has been applied in different ways
over the last two hundred years, and has been linked to a variety of other
political and social movement, but almost always refers to advocates of
population control.
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The population
theory which came into viewed during the seventeenth century and grew in the
eighteenth century relied greatly on paternalistic hypothesis. As per an early
statement by Gullalime Bude, 'The king's glory is in the multitude of the
people.' Likewise, Pesriere asked 'who will carry the weapons if men are
lacking?' Jean Bodin was even more precise: 'There is no wealth nor strength
but in men.
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