The New Statesman
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Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus ' most famous thesis, that population growth will outstrip food supply, has attracted interest in our age of geopolitical insecurity.
Food production has more than kept pace with the tenfold increase of the world population from 800 million in his time to today , does little to dissuade his ardent advocates.
But consumption growth, not population growth, that leads to the pollution and destruction of nature.
This is especially important for women, but involves making sure fathers play their full part in child rearing. We should certainly remove the cap on the two -child benefit, which currently stops families from getting additional means-tested support for their third and their subsequent children, worth more than 3,200 per year. Rejecting Malthus means disavowing the misguided economic argument that absolute scarcity inevitably leads to austerity. [See also: Modi’s new world order].
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