How does exponential growth all start in the world’s population? The new Malthusians say that the earth’s population is increasing faster every year and that the growth doubles approximately equal intervals of time, but now its accelerating beyond that. The anti-Malthusians think otherwise because countries are becoming industrialized which means less need for kids and we end up with a shrinkage. An example will be between Europe populations shrinkage and Africa’s population explosion. First, what is the shrinkage and explosion of a population? A shrinkage of a population is when the number of births of that population doesn’t replace the number of deaths. Explosion is the inverse of shrinkage were the number of births surpass the number
