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I love how you attempt state that non-ironically, even as 70-80% of the world population is essentially already living in what could easily be considered a Malt

• nandemo 16y ago
  Your link only says something about the percentage of people living in developing countries. A Malthusian catastrophe (also called a Malthusian check, crisis, disaster, or nightmare) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe I come from a developing country and I'm sure such a catastrophe never happened there. It hasn't happened in most of Latin American countries, either. There are people there who do live on subsistence-level but that's not related to a shortage of food.
• mistermann 16y ago
  Severe poverty (by our standards) doesn't require a "Malthusian catastrophe", there are many different ways to achieve this. Civil war and/or corrupt leadership are two particularly effective means. And a lot of the people in the world living in "poverty" in 2010 have living standards well above what would be considered middle class in 1910. A lot, however, don't.