I never believed the population theory of Malthus.
我从来不相信马尔萨斯的人口理论。
The conflicts of scarcity are not the same as the cataclysms of Malthus.
稀缺性冲突不同于马尔萨斯灾难。
In 1798 Thomas Malthus wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population".
在1798年,托马斯·马尔萨斯写了一篇名为《人口原理》的书。
Darwin read Malthus in 1838 and immediately realized how it applied to his own work.
达尔文1838年阅读了马尔萨斯的作品,立刻就意识到将其应用于自己的研究中。
So Malthus looks beatable even when he sits astride the apocalyptic horse of climate change.
因此即使马尔萨斯骑在预示气候变化大灾难的高头大马上时,看起来他也被击败了。
释义
Thomas Robert (1766—1834), English economist and clergyman. In Essay on Population (1798) he argued that without the practice of ‘moral restraint' the population tends to increase at a greater rate than its means of subsistence, resulting in the population checks of war, famine, and epidemic.