A Malthusian collapse would entail running out of resources because the population grew too fast, not because the resources are otherwise affected. Conditional

A Malthusian collapse would entail running out of resources because the population grew too fast, not because the resources are otherwise affected. Conditional on some constant access to a shared resource, the price increase would smoothly counter the population increase, bringing everything back into stability without ever leading to massive starvation. Supply shocks are certainly a thing, but we have not seen anything like a Malthusian collapse since he wrote about it.