Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Thomas Malthus by John Linnell. Wellcome Collection via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY No one uses “Malthusian” as a ...

When the Reverend Thomas Malthus predicted in 1798 that the booming population would doom the world to famine and disaster, he had no idea how wrong he would prove to be. Two centuries on, as the ...

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage of media hand ...

One of the more wrong-headed predictions of a famous 19 century thinker, Thomas Malthus, was that because world population would grow more rapidly than food production, mankind faced a bleak future of ...

Among the demands of James Lee, the deranged gunman who rampaged through the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in Washington, D.C., before being shot and killed late Wednesday afternoon, was a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An Essay on the Principles of Population,” the “Malthusian” ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Roy Scranton, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) No one uses ...

Roy Scranton received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An ...

(The Conversation) — The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues. (The ...