Malthus' theory

1. According to Malthus, what is the general nature of all animated life?
   To increase beyond the nourishment provided.
   
   
2. According to Malthus, what is the most positive check on human population growth that has existed in history?
   The difficulty of acquiring food.
3. Describe Malthus’ idea of arithmetic growth of food supply v geometric growth of human population. 
   Food and produce can not be produced as quickly as the population can grow, also, population can continuously grow forever, but when the human population runs out of land for food to be grown on, they only have the fertile land to depend on which is most likely not enough for the growing population. For example, if you took the whole Earth the population would grow 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 while produce would grow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
4. Discuss Malthus’ idea of positive and preventive checks on human population. Provide examples of both.  Preventative checks are ways of thinking that prevent many people from pursuing all nature has to offer. For example, some of these checks are "will he not  subject himself to greater difficulties and more severe labor than in his present state?" and "Will he be able to give his children adequate educational advantages?" Positive checks are ways of thinking that stop people from using all of the Earth's materials so that they don't shorten human life. Some of these examples are, plagues, wars, famines, severe labor, etc.
5. RESEARCH: Was Malthus Right? Read the article and do some outside research if necessary and decide whether or not Malthus was right.  No, I do not think Malthus's theory is correct, nowadays. I think this because Malthus theorized that "the power of population growth is greater than the power of the earth to produce the means of subsistence." This is incorrect because, originally Malthus thought that as soon as we ran out of things of subsistence such as oil or arable land, we wouldn't be able to keep up with the population. However, he would not have known in his time period that technological advances would lead to more subsistent materials to be found and used so that the Earth could support the growing population for many many years to come. Even though it may seem that Malthus's theory was correct for some countries such as India, the situations in these countries aren't a matter of the Earth's subsistence or how many materials it has, but rather how fast people can work and create things. If this problem was fixed and more materials could be created faster, then the problem would be solved or at least diminished.