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Thomas Malthus

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Noun1.Thomas Malthus - an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)Thomas Malthus - an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus
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In 1798 economist Thomas Malthus pointed out the dangers a rising population posed but the chattering classes still can't or won't see it.
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Concerns about the consequences of a rapidly growing world population and finite resources first came to prominence with the publication of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus in 1798.
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