Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) was a British cleric who wrote influential works on economics and demography. The book is a bit redundant, and gives an interesting perspective of the Enlightenment thinking at the time, best to supplement the reading with a more current read on such articles on the internet.
Malthus lived during the height of the Industrial Revolution in UK where there were large flows of people from rural to cities to take advantage of the new factory jobs. Malthus was concerned with the large increase of population and the filthy conditions they were living in, and the disparity between the rising capitalists and the poor, surmising that the trend was not sustainable. Being a cleric, he attributed large population increases among the poor to sinful morals, and warned that exponential population increase could not be matched by linear increase in food supplies. Although his analysis did not come to immediate fruition, his ideas have remained a current theme among environmentalists, economists and others. The world population continues to balloon, and food supplies have kept pace, but at the cost of environmental degradation, health decline due to obesity, and resource depletion. Lack of food may not be the cause for population decline, but high concentrations of populations subject to pandemics and network failures of transportation distribution, pollution, environmental degradation, energy supplies, automation, social tribal wars, and political mayhem.
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