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Malthusianism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Thomas Malthus argued that the size of the human population will always increase more quickly than our ability to feed ourselves. He saw plague famine and wars as natural mechanism designed to keep human numbers within manageable limits. His ideas were cited by Charles Darwin as a key influence in his theory of natural selection, they remain contentious today. Karen O'Brien provides chance of education at the University of Birmingham Mark Philip lecturer in politics at the Universityof Oxford and Emma Griffin senior lecturer in history at the University Of East Anglia.

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