SOC312H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Substance Dependence, Industrial Revolution, Advanced Capitalism
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Population tends to grow geometrically while resources grow arithmetically. If left unchecked, population would become so large that it would eventually surpass human"s ability to produce food in sufficient quantities. Principle of population--> reducing effects such as plagues, wars, diseases are. Positive checks" on population growth and these events would be inevitable results of allowing population growth to continue unabated. Believed that the only way to prevent successive cycles of population growth and collapse was to implement preventive checks" on population to curtail the birth rate. He was thinking about celibacy and late marriage moral restraint": he considered these personal choices coincided perfectly with the moral codes of a christian life. Lived through american revolution, french revolution and a significant portion of the industrial revolution. Virtus generative (biological drive to reproduce) is stronger than virtus nutriva (human need for sustenance) ultimately limits population growth.
