Pros And Cons Of The Malthusian Trap

The Malthusian theory has been proven wrong in which that population growth will outpace the food production, eventually, famine and starvation become a limiting force for population growth. But, the population rate is not constant, there are other factors such as advances in technology, the use of genetically engineered crops, higher income, government policies, social patterns of family size, and environmental that affects population growth.

The Malthusian trap has been avoided because advances in technology greatly improved the output of food production. With the help of machinery and genetically modified seeds mankind has made food production more efficient. It is pretty hard that world population would starve. The increase in income also