Neo-malthusianism

Thomas Malthus, an English scholar who lived in the early 18th century proposed that growing population would inevitably outpace food availability, leading to what today is called a Malthusian crisis. People who hold this view today and the theories or models that support them are known as “neo-malthusian.” In recent times the global model constructed by Dennis and Donella Meadows at Dartmouth University in their 1972 Limits to Growth model found similar population- induced consumption limits.