GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Thomas Robert Malthus, Sub-Saharan Africa, Industrial Revolution
4 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
He wrote it when the pop hit the 1 billion mark. Malthus arguement: we can look at the relationship between 2 things over time: food supply increases in a linear fashion, population increases in an exponential way (1,2,4,6,8) Negative malthusian checks, real problems coming up such as famine and war. Suggested 2 things: preventative checks on population: voluntarily giving up your fertility so it doesn"t exceed the food supply, positive checks on pop: we will start killing each other over food. As a summary there are 2 options: we either reduce the fertility or kill each other. Agricultural productivity: industrial revolution had an impact on agricul produc. Although in some places in sub-saharan africa can be seen relevant. Contraception: he didnt think reducing fertilitity was something people would do. Some people argue for what malthus was saying neo-malthusiast people with the same view about the catastrophe we"re leading to.
