Although the world’s current population is nowhere near as large as Malthus would have predicted, there are some places where overpopulation is a serious issue. The population on Earth is not evenly distributed, and natural increase rates are generally higher in developing countries. Malthus considered several different factors of population in his essay, including natural checks on population growth, and the standards of living for the poor. However, during his time industrialization was starting to overpower agriculture. He could not predict that agriculture would become industrialized and that agriculture techniques would improve. Malthus believed that a rise in population growth would result in a total lack of food , but that does not hold true today. A resource such as food is in abundant supply and is not dropping due to overpopulation. Rather, people in certain areas go hungry because resources are unevenly distributed across the
Although the world’s current population is nowhere near as large as Malthus would have predicted, there are some places where overpopulation is a serious issue. The population on Earth is not evenly distributed, and natural increase rates are generally higher in developing countries. Malthus considered several different factors of population in his essay, including natural checks on population growth, and the standards of living for the poor. However, during his time industrialization was starting to overpower agriculture. He could not predict that agriculture would become industrialized and that agriculture techniques would improve. Malthus believed that a rise in population growth would result in a total lack of food , but that does not hold true today. A resource such as food is in abundant supply and is not dropping due to overpopulation. Rather, people in certain areas go hungry because resources are unevenly distributed across the