Thomas Robert Malthus claimed that ________
a. the world could sustain an ever-larger population.
b. population increase would eventually bring chaos to the world.
c. industrialization would reduce the birth rate.
d. population decrease threatened the world in the future.
Question 2
Malthus argued that ________
a. population would increase in geometric progression.
b. food and other resources would increase in arithmetic progression.
c. people would reproduce to a point beyond what the planet could support.
d. All of these responses are correct.
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