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The English political economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus FRS (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) analysed population growth and noted the potential for populations to increase rapidly, often faster than the food supply available to them. Commentators may refer to such a runaway scenario, as outlined in Malthus's treatise An Essay on the Principle of Population, as a "Malthusian catastrophe". Modern commentators generally refer to him as Thomas Malthus, but during his lifetime he... full article at wikipedia
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