Malthus And Starving

Malthus And Starving

The United Nations projects that the global population, currently at 6 billion, will
peak at about 10 billion in the next century and then stabilize or even decline.

A question immediately following the statement, can the Earth feed that many
people? It is understood that even if food crops increase sufficiently, other
renewable resources, including many fisheries and forests, are already under
pressure. Our food production doubled from 1961 to 1994, but there are still
people who go hungry. This is because the human population has increased more
rapidly than the food production. One of the well-known economists Thomas Robert

Malthus claimed that there was an imbalance between population growth and our
ability to produce food. In his famous work, An Essay on the Principle of

Population, his principle of population was based on three main points:
population cannot increase without the means of subsistence; population
invariable increases when the means of subsistence are available; and the
superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

When taking into account Malthus principle of population it is evident that his
fundamental analysis of population has been proven right. Since the earth
resources are finite, when human population increases, it affects human beings.

Will there be a problem if population keeps increasing? Rapid population growth
and the technical development of society have led to difficulties for far...

Malthus And Starving

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