No. Malthus would have said . . . > Bacteria also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked. > Rats also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo,

No. Malthus would have said . . . > Bacteria also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked. > Rats also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked. > Ants also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked. And he'd have been right. Horrible things happen to those populations when they grow too large. If you want to talk about Malthus being wrong, that has to do with human inventiveness, disease, and war, among other things, throwing off his simple extrapolations.