Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of ...

Yes, of course, Tom Hanks is out flogging his latest movie Inferno, the central plot of which involves an evil scientist who attempts to release a virus to kill off the world's excess population.

Overpopulation in Malta has led to significant strain on infrastructure, increased traffic congestion, and challenges in waste and sewage management. The rapid population growth has also raised ...

Sociologists remind us of the Malthusian theory based on his observation of conditions in England in the early 1800s. Malthus argued that the available farmland was insufficient to feed the increasing ...

Malthusian pessimism was singled out as the most vulnerable expression of the dominant, classical school of economics. Boston idealists, who saw the Malthusian concept as `a curb to all reform', ...

Mention the name “Malthus” and you are met with a storm of abuse. The media elite, protected from nature in their urban bubbles, never tire of pronouncing Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the ...

You’d think after 200 years, folks would eventually say, “That Malthus guy? Kind of wrong.” Yet, with the (projected) birth today of the world’s 7 billionth occupant, there’s no shortage of media hand ...

The 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic has all the visible hallmarks of a Malthusian pestilence, a necessary positive check visited upon an overabundant humanity. Indeed, that is a likely future interpretation ...

Re: C.F. Runge's letter of March 12 ["Apply Science to Population," in response to the writer's Feb. 27 letter "Humans Overpopulate Relative to Ecosystem"] discrediting the Malthusian Theory of 1798: ...