This is true
citations please
Malthusianism is a brainlet unscientific ideology
Tyler James
Landon Sanders
Those are some bold claims in the face of empirical data. The birthrate may be dropping, but the growth in population is still exponential. A population of 7.7 billion growing at a rate of 1.07% in 2019 is still more than 3.8 billion growing at a rate of 2.01% in 1972. Also this
Gabriel Scott
No they aren’t. It’s the UN’s projection of the rate of population growth. Which will be at near zero by 2,100.
Long term decrease in the rate of growth is not exponential growth. It’s logarithmic.
The population is expected to keep growing until 2,100. However the amount of growth will be a manageable amount.
Jeremiah Young
Your graphs are outdated. Get better ones.
Adam Adams
If everyone lived like the avg person in a western industrialized, of course there would be a concern of overpopulation. However, the main contradiction now as was in Marx's time is not overpopulation but the fact that there is too much product being hoarded by a tiny minority. Only viable way to create a sustainable environment is through the appropriation of all wealth and production by the working class who will democratically make decisions which is in the interests of all of humanity. The working class will plant trillions of trees and millions of sq. miles worth of seaweed and aquatic plants. It will heavily invest in renewable energy and through mass education and stable economic conditions create a population which will breed just enough to replenish the population.
The stances being advanced here are fundamentally anti-Marxist and pessimistic, which is counter-revolutionary at a time when the working class is again waking from its slumber