单词	Malthusian
释义	Malthusian /malˈθjuːzɪən / adjective Relating to or characteristic of the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus or his ideas about population: it seems we face a curious Malthusian catastrophe... I have always found his endorsement of the Malthusian population principle quite surprising. All creatures, the Malthusian argument runs, tend to increase in geometrical progression. He portrays the crisis phase primarily in Malthusian terms, the consequence of too many mouths feeding from too few acres of land. noun A person who supports the theories about population proposed by the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus: Malthusians spoke of moral restraint... The anarchists pointed to his own comments to prove that he was a Malthusian. He was politically and economically arch-conservative, an ardent Malthusian and opponent of immigration. As a Malthusian, he attended to the trade-off between sex and material income. Rhymes Carthusian, Venusian
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