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The Theory of Population

1)That is the constant tendency of all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment provided for it.
2) According to Malthus, the most positive check on human population growth that has existed in history is disease.
3) If we go off of arithmetic growth we would not be able to calculate how many people will be on the earth because there will be so many. When you go off of geometric growth you will be able to see how it stops.
4) A preventive check like poverty or disease will keep the population down so that we will have set backs and then can expand more. We will be able to increase more and it kind of stabilizes the growth of the worlds population.
5) He was right and wrong in the point that he was onto something. But he was wrong because not one thing in the world canhave such explanatory power.

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