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Compare and contrast the Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian perspectives in the context of population growth, resource use, and environmental impact.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Thomas Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) argued that population tends to grow geometrically while subsistence grows arithmetically, so growth is checked either by preventive checks that lower the birth rate or by positive checks — famine, disease and war — that raise the death rate.

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