MALTHUS Two hundred years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist , wrote “An Essay on the Principle of Population” in which he argued that the world population would increase faster than the food supply, with disastrous results for the general human welfare. A world population of 250 million at the time of Christ has now grown to 5.7 billion in spite of wars, plagues, famine, and epidemics. World food production has been keeping pace with population growth …showed first 75 words of 1884 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1884 total…the pulpit or podium who can influence the public mind set. There is only one certainty, a sustainable society will be achieved during the next century, either orderly by conscious decision or chaotically by nature. The first step toward solving a problem is to define it in terms the people effected can understand. A beginning may be the formation of a World Population Bureau which issues periodic media news reports similar to a Weather Bureau.