SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Andes, Malthusianism, Exponential Growth
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A planet with no space for enjoying life: 14. 1. Europe"s population grew due to the discovery of the potato by spanish conquistadors in the andes mountains. Thomas malthus became alarmed by this growth and wrote an essay on the principle of population. Malthus theorem: although the food supply increases arithmetically (from1 2 3 4 and so on), population grows geometrically (from. The new malthusians: if population goes unchecked food supply will run out, they believe that the world"s population is growing so fast that in just the time it takes you to read this chapter, another 20k to. The anti-malthusians: believe in demographic transition: a 3-stage historical process of change in the size of populations: 1 high birth rates and high death rates. 2 high birth rates and low death rates. 3 low birth rates and low death rates. 4 stage of population shrinkage in which deaths outnumber births has made its appearance in the most industrialized.
