Word: malthusian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...India Moynihan must deal with the Malthusian problems of population and food supply, but in Washington he faced an equivalent problem for a developed country--the so-called issue of poverty amid plenty...
...There already are as many as 110 million cats and dogs in America, which equals more than one dog or cat for every two humans. Every hour, between 2,000 and 3,500 puppies and kittens are born (v. 415 human babies). The authors make no Malthusian projections of a continent overrun with strays. They do, however, have a finely honed sense of the economics of pets...
Zero population growth is the ultimate goal of family-planning groups concerned with the implications of spiraling overpopulation. This marks the first time the U.S. has reached the optimum figure; given the dire Malthusian forecasts advanced by many scientists and sociologists, that is an encouraging sign. It does not mean, however, that population growth will level off significantly in the near future. Since there are now so many young child-producing families in U.S. society, the maintenance of the 2.1 figure really means that the population will level off at around 280 million...
...attempts to explain them away. The arithmetical average of the present wealth of nations evenly distributed would bring everyone to some thing like the living standard of Spain or Southern Italy today. Future demands upon resources are likely to in crease geometrically. The mathematics of universal abundance is still Malthusian; to believe that the distribution of scarcity - which is to say economics itself - can be wished or willed away is a failure to know that numbers, when multiplied together, are more than abstractions...
...such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...