| The wiki article you link cites some "critics" but I don’t see proofs. How would you "prove" the future of humanity anyway? Moreover that idea has taken different forms between time and individual formulating it, we can’t reject all of them because some includes fallacies. > Despite use of the term "Malthusian catastrophe" by detractors such as economist Julian Simon (1932–1998), Malthus himself did not write that mankind faced an inevitable future catastrophe. Rather, he offered an evolutionary social theory […] 1. subsistence severely limits population-level 2. when the means of subsistence increases, population increases 3. population-pressures stimulate increases in productivity 4. increases in productivity stimulate further population-growth 5. because productivity increases cannot maintain the potential rate of population growth, population requires strong checks to keep parity with the carrying-capacity 6. individual cost/benefit decisions regarding sex, work, and children determine the expansion or contraction of population and production 7. checks will come into operation as population exceeds subsistence-level 8. the nature of these checks will have significant effect on the larger sociocultural system—Malthus points specifically to misery, vice, and poverty |