An Essay on the Principle of Population

While millions face hunger malnutrition and starvation the world's population is increasing by over 225000 people per day 80 million per year. In many countries supplies of food and water are inadequate to support the population so the world falls deeper and deeper into what economists call the Malthusian trap. Here Malthus examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources and argues that poverty disease and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence.