The Cornucopian Catastrophe

Thomas Robert’s Malthus hypothesize that in the future population will exceed food production, which will cause an extreme scarcity of food and disease. Eventually leading to something known as the Malthusian catastrophe. This would happen because the population greatly increased while food supply decreased. Without control of the population, humanity would be reduced to disaster, such as poverty or state of war according to Malthusian theory. Malthus had a resolution to such problem. He expressed that there be restraint, such as practicing moderation, infertility, or being penalize for those having children they cannot support. Malthus advanced the Neo-Malthusian theory and states that “the means of subsistence increases at a ratio of arithmetic while the population increases faster than subsistence at a geometrical rate”. The theory therefore claims that there would be an inevitable amount/stock of goods supporting life in the future. According to the this, it would stop only if the rate of human reproduction declined or inclined of a calamity which would reduce the human population.
Cornucopians on the other hand compared to Neo-Malthusians, does not …show more content…
Cornucopian states that humankind can increase resource production, while Neo-Malthusian states that there is a limit. In my opinion, we live in an environment that constantly needs to be stimulated. I don’t foresee in our near future society decreasing any of its resources or supplies, unless we start to regulate the way we do things. We’re currently living by the Cornucopian theory. We are producing massive amounts of goods each year and our population continues to grow. Population control may be inevitable since our world’s population size is becoming larger. For example, in some parts of the world it’s leading to issues such as unemployment, poverty and