does the people accept the theory of Thomas Malthus and what is the total impact of the theory to the them?

Question

and why.

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Answer 1

Yes. They've been predicting that we will run out of food for hundreds of years now. The most famous recent advocate was Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" in 1968. He warned of the mass starvation of humans in 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. You do remember the Great Starvation of the 1980s, don't you?

Apocalyptic predictions are always popular. Al Gore has made a fortune on them and there will surely be others in the next decade.

Answer 2

Woooooowwww haha.



Grammar, is a friend.



And don't be so needy, asking for answers right away doesn't change when people will give them to you haha. And on to the answer.



Thomas Malthus proposed that overpopulation is a problem, and would be the fall of mankind. Many people have taken this view point, and have made many many many predictions about running out of a certain resource such as food or oil and have all been wrong in the past. The mathematics they used may have been right, but didn't account for the beautiful human greed that gives us such a wonderful opportunities and lifestyles.



The theory of Thomas Malthus can only have an impact on politics really. The biggest factor in a change of the purchasing patterns of society as a whole is a change in the prices of goods. If we were running out of a substance, the price would go up in anticipation of the shortage and people would begin ration due to prices. It wouldn't matter if they knew or even cared about an upcoming shortage. All they have to know is the price has gone up and that is all that they do need to know.



Now onto the human greed aspect. If a shortage of any resources was eminent, than the price would be going through the roof. Lets take food for example. Lets say food was going to run out. Lets say you are a 'evil and greedy capitalist' (can't help but hate them haha) and all you care about is making money. Than the best way to make money, a way to get filthy rich beyond all your dreams would be to find a way to increase the production of food and save the world from starvation and famine. Yes, that person may be evil, and I may have very little respect for such a person, but it was that very greed which saved us. In a capitalistic society, greed is captured, and used to benefit society.

Answer 3

I live in a spacious house in a county where there is a lot of space between houses and the room on the road is spacious. So I am very relaxed. Before I lived here I was in a tiny house on a street that didn't have a lot of space to park and the houses were close together. It felt as if the world was cramped & over populated. There was so much tension between the neighbors. I saw a public broadcasing show on psychology and the showed an experiment where there was a space where a few mice had to live in and then they took a smaller space and put a lot more mice in that space. The ones with space were fine but the ones in the cramped space were angry, attacking each other. Fighting over the things they needed. So if I understand Mr. Malthus and he is saying that tightness causes stress and stress causes more things to make life stressful then yes, I agree with that. Most unwanted pregnancies are of people who really can't care for a child. Most pregnancies come to people who don't want to be pregnant. Frustration breeds and more to be frustrated about is the result. Yet we live in a very spacious universe which is abundant. It is the difference between the health of an conservative person and a liberal person. If we hold tight we get high blood pressure. So relax and we get more to relax about.

Answer 4

Economists do not accept malthus for one main reason: Capital and Technology increases growth and production faster than increase in human needs



Biologists and Ecologists often have a more Malthusian view about the world because I think they study biosystems in which creatures cannot produce new ways to gain resources like humans can



hope that answers your question!

Answer 5

very few people do accept that theory, and it has little impact on they since they already had to be mentally impaired to accept the theory.

Answer 6

Some people do.