The Malthusian traps talks about how the population of the world would out run the natural resources and food reserves. It states that the world will inevitably be over-populated and the quality of life suffers drastically. Thomas Malthus warned that without any checks, population would theoretically grow at an exponential rate, rapidly exceeding its ability to produce resources to support itself. Malthus argued that an exponentially growing population would self-correct through war, famine, and disease. Malthus cautioned that in order to avoid catastrophe such as famine and war, people should enact deliberate population control, such as birth control and
