Malthusianism

A pessimistic viewpoint on population and world resources, based on the doctrines of Thomas Malthus . Malthusianism holds that population tends to increase faster than the supply of food, thus preventing the steady progress of mankind. Malthus advocated premarital chastity, late marriage, and sexual abstinence as partial solutions.

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The book spawned the concept of Malthusianism, which has since been used to justify everything from eugenics to the forced sterilization of "undesirable" citizens.

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“Nations are reorienting toward the national interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables,” he said in his column.

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"Malthusianism isn't new, Jonathan Swift knew that. Sometimes, only satire works," referring to English demographer Thomas Malthus and the Irish satirist Jonathan Swift.

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The principal ground of attack was the story which dealt with Malthusianism, Weal and Woe in Garveloch.

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Economists consider Malthusianism, at least as understood in modern times, to be a discredited doctrine.

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