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   Mal·thu·sian·ism

   /môlˈTHo͞oZHənizəm/

   

   noun

   • 1. the view that without ‘moral restraint’ the population will increase at a greater rate than its means of subsistence, as proposed by the English economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus: "birth control became associated with Malthusianism only in the last quarter of the century"

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