This isn't a refutation of Malthus at all. He didn't say that food production couldn't increase to keep up with population, he said that it couldn't do so *for

This isn't a refutation of Malthus at all. He didn't say that food production couldn't increase to keep up with population, he said that it couldn't do so *forever*--and nothing has changed about that. What avoids a Malthusian doom is birth control.