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Neo malthusian
Neo malthusian







Neo-Malthusians seem to differ from Malthus’s theories mainly in their enthusiasm for contraception. In Britain the term Malthusian can also refer more specifically to arguments made in favour of preventive birth control, hence organizations such as the Malthusian League. Neo-Malthusianism generally refers to people with the same basic concerns as Malthus, who advocate population control programs, to ensure resources for current and future populations.

neo malthusian

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 movements, but almost always refers to advocates of population control. The catastrophe would return population to a lower, more “sustainable”, level. Malthus believed in “positive checks”, which lead to ‘premature’ death: disease, starvation, war, resulting in what is called a Malthusian catastrophe. He believed there were “preventive checks” such as moral restraints (abstinence, delayed marriage until finances become balanced), and restricting marriage against persons suffering poverty and/or defects. Malthus believed there were two types of “checks” that could then reduce the population, returning it to a more sustainable level.

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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 while the growth of the food supply was expected to be arithmetical. Text from Wikipedia, citations and some links intact. A social theory discussed in the novel in connection with the purpose of the ].









Neo malthusian