Examples of Malthusian catastrophes in the following topics:
-
- Advocates of Malthusian theory point to epidemics that diminished urban populations after early periods of urbanization as evidence that Mathus' predictions were correct.
- Malthusians would cite this as a natural check on populations that were outpacing natural resource availability.
- According to Malthus, the only alternative to moral restraint was certain disaster: if allowed to grow unchecked, population would outstrip available resources, resulting in what came to be known as Malthusian catastrophes: naturally occurring checks on population growth such as famine, disease, or war.
- Proponents of this theory, Neo-Malthusians, state that these famines were examples of Malthusian catastrophes.
- Malthusians would cite epidemics and starvation in overpopulated urban slums, like this one in Cairo, as natural checks on growing populations that have exceeded the carrying capacities of their local environments.
-
- At the same time, death rates can also increase unexpectedly due to disease, wars, and other mass catastrophes.
- According to some scenarios, disasters triggered by the growing population's demand for scarce resources will eventually lead to a sudden population crash, or even a Malthusian catastrophe, where overpopulation would compromise global food security and lead to mass starvation .
-
- Proponents of this theory, Neo-Malthusians state that these famines were examples of Malthusian catastrophes.
-
- His arguments are widely known as Malthusianism, and present-day proponents of this theory are called Neo-Malthusians.
-
- His dire predictions are widely known as "Malthusianism. "
-
- But no such catastrophe came to be.