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Thomas Malthus' main contribution was to provide a nexus between food supply and population. He posited that while food supply grows at a numerical rate, population increases at a higher rate mathematically. He believed the only thing that kept Humans from breeding into extinction was economic incentives or perks.
Thomas Malthus believed that nothing could improve the condition of the working class. He predicted that the population would eventually outstrip the food supply because the human population grows geometrically, while the food supply only expands arithmetically. Thus, he believed that only ways to avert disaster were through late marriage, chastity, and contraception (thought he considered contraception a vice). Malthus also believed and predicted that the immediate plight of the working class could only worsen because if wages were raised, workers would have more children, who would consume more food as well as extra wages. In his later life, Malthus took on the more optimistic belief and prediction that the workers' wages could be spent on consumer goods rather than on producing more children if they were persuaded to adopt a higher standard of living.
only war, disease, and famine could control it
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If anyone knew that they could make a fortune. But the future isn't what it used to be.
What prediction could you make about your future rolls.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus believed that world population had to be brought under control or there would be serious problems in the future. His book, "An Essay on the Principles of World Population," stated that he feared not enough food could be produced to avoid mass starvation if the population wasn't controlled.
Thomas Malthus
In 1798, a 32 year-old British economist anonymously published a lengthy pamphlet criticizing the views of the Utopians who believed that life could and would definitely improve for humans on earth. The hastily written text, An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers, was published by Thomas Robert Malthus.
There are several people to choose from to predict the future. There are those who can read the palm of your hand and make predictions on your life. There are those who can read tarot cards, or tea leaves which will give you the same type of outcomes.
If you wish to become better at predicting the future, the best advice I could give would be for you to be as well informed as you can, about anything which is relevant to the predictions you wish to make. Accurate predictions are based on accurate information and intelligent analysis of that information.
The world will never have an foreseen event that comes true, no one can tell your future. If someone could they would be able to predict exactly what would happen, now a rough language of bullcrap. Nostradomus, his predictions are so vague. He made many many prediction, he said numerous wrong predictions that never happened. My point is if someone could see the future and not get a prediction dead on there bullcrap. 2012 prediction is just another day.
Darwin realized that Malthus's theory of population control could be generalized to any population of organisms.
Thomas Malthus' main contribution was to provide a nexus between food supply and population. He posited that while food supply grows at a numerical rate, population increases at a higher rate mathematically. He believed the only thing that kept Humans from breeding into extinction was economic incentives or perks.
That the population would grow exponentially until it exceeded the available resources, then abruptly crash. This boom-bust process could become cyclic repeating over and over.
What do you mean by that? I could answer it if you defined what you mean by "predictions".