Limits to growth and the rise of catastrophism

From: Environmental History | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Malthusians, Neo-Malthusians and Catastrophists

Two hundred years ago Thomas Malthus suggested the existence of limits in food production. A population that was too large would cause a subsequent decrease as a result of famines, plagues, and war. Neo-Malthusians posit that other factors might limit population, such as environmental contamination and resources exhaustion, but have until now assumed a rigid relation behveen such factors and population. Both Malthusians and Neo-Malthusians are catastrophists, claiming that either the continuation of the present trends of population growth or of ...

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