Bicentennial of T.R. Malthus's “first essay on population” A return to Malthusianism two centuries later?
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This year marks the bicentennial of the anonymous publication of a work by clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus entitled An Essay on Population. At the time, it sparked a lively ethical and theological debate due to its provocative conclusions. Two centuries after the publication of this essay, some of the ethical and theological arguments put forward by Malthus are still alive today. The problem of world hunger, overpopulation, and human fertility control policies in the Third World are interpreted by some authors as a return to Malthusianism. These principles, promoted by neoliberal cultures, heirs to social Darwinism, were present at the Cairo Conference on “Population and Development” and today occupy large swathes of public opinion.
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