I think opponents of Malthus, really do not pay attention to history or his arguments. He died in 1834. The Irish Potato Famine was in 1845. There were historic

I think opponents of Malthus, really do not pay attention to history or his arguments. He died in 1834. The Irish Potato Famine was in 1845. There were historical political aspects to The Great Famine, but there was also a prior huge population growth. > "That the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, That population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and, That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice." His postulate hasn't proven true for the entire global population, it has very often proven true for smaller populations. Fossil fuels are to the world, as the Potato was to mid 19th century Ireland.