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Will Malthus Be Right?
Maybe. So far, of course, the English political economist has been wrong
our rapidly expanding population has not outstripped the growth of our food
supply. Poverty and famine, which Malthus said would become universal,
instead remain more a problem of distribution. But with an extra 3 billion
people on the planet in the next 50 years an extra 50 percent percent we might be nearing the limits of what our
globe can support.
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Zero Population Growth
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eliminating global population growth
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Answers frequently asked questions about overpopulation and provides news,
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Text of the "Essay on the Principle of Population" (1798) as well as links to
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