I think Malthus’ trap is almost entirely imprecise and yes, I do believe we been avoiding it and that maybe we have done unconsciously. Why? Firstable, the population is not exponential but is leveling off. Why is it leveling off? Because rising income levels is leading to a decline in the population such as family planning, birth control, increase status of women, and urbanization of countries. All these are leading to leveling off of worldwide population. So, why is Malthus still influential today? I think because there’s a very fine line of logic to the idea that resources, especially food, are limited. Malthus argued that the food production is linear, but thanks to the green revolution we could prove him otherwise. For instance, the United
