Malthusian catastrophe

However, some contend that the Malthusian catastrophe is not imminent.

Thus, we may become one of the few K-strategist species to experience a Malthusian catastrophe.

Massive geometric population growth in the 20th century did not result in a Malthusian catastrophe.

The similarities between this concept and a Malthusian catastrophe are obvious, but there are key differences.

In the long term these effects can lead to increased conflict over dwindling resources and in the worst case a Malthusian catastrophe.

This is known as Malthusian catastrophe.

Some predictions parallel the Malthusian catastrophe hypothesis.

Other factors such as a Malthusian catastrophe, overpopulation or resource depletion might be the proximate cause of collapse.

I would expect either a stabilized optimax-call it ten to the tenth-or a Malthusian catastrophe, in not over seven to eight centuries."

Thomas Malthus, and the Malthusian catastrophe.

Also, the advent of industrial agriculture and the infrastructure built around conventional food systems has enabled the world population to expand beyond the "Malthusian catastrophe" limitations.

O'Neill's positive attitude towards both technology and human potential distinguished this book from gloomy predictions of a Malthusian catastrophe by contemporary scientists.

Malthus believed in "positive checks", which lead to 'premature' death: disease, starvation, war, resulting in what is called a Malthusian catastrophe.

He feared that population growth would tend to outstrip growth in food production, leading to ever-increasing famine and poverty (see Malthusian catastrophe).

Harris also describes the state of the world in the late 19th century as one of approaching catastrophe as predicted by Malthus (Malthusian catastrophe).

A Malthusian catastrophe (also known as Malthusian check) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production.

Rwanda (Chapter 10) represents a Malthusian catastrophe happening under our eyes, an over-populated land that collapsed in horrible bloodshed, as the Maya did in the past.

His conclusions were pessimistic and entailed a resigned belief in an inevitable Malthusian catastrophe, as described in his 1952 book The Next Million Years.

Henry Fairfield Osborn advocated "humane birth selection through humane birth control" in order to avoid a Malthusian catastrophe by eliminating the "unfit."

The Population Bomb has been characterized by critics as primarily a repetition of the Malthusian catastrophe argument that population growth will outpace agricultural growth unless controlled.

Proponents of the Peak Oil theory fear that a future decline in oil and gas production would lead to a decline in food production or even a Malthusian catastrophe.

Despite use of the term "Malthusian catastrophe" by detractors such as economist Julian Simon (1932-1998), Malthus himself did not write that mankind faced an inevitable future catastrophe.

A Malthusian catastrophe on Earth has been averted by the invention of teleportation, called the "Ramsbotham jump", which is used to send Earth's excess population to colonize other planets.

Hardin blamed the welfare state for allowing the tragedy of the commons; where the state provides for children and supports overbreeding as a fundamental human right, malthusian catastrophe is inevitable.

Friedrich Engels also criticizes the Malthusian catastrophe because Malthus failed to see that surplus population is connected to surplus wealth, surplus capital, and surplus landed property.