1- Even though there is no crystal ball to foresee what lies ahead for a nation (U.S.) or world which faces possible over-consumption of food due to too many people (mouths to feed), there is still a precautionary state of being to enhance the possibility of returning to and sustaining a healthy, leveled out way of living (minimum viable population). The immediate concern is the space needed to carry all the bodies of people arriving and by that I mean, a long with other things, that humans are robotic or completely immune from harm’s way and so at some point they will need assistance like medical care, but if you have ever been in a hospital now you know that it’s a long process because there isn’t enough room to have people be cared for all at once. And as the population grows so will the expansion of businesses such as hospitals which will decrease space.

If many people are like me diet-wise, and I believe that they are, the taste of meat (beef, poultry, etc.) is not something they’re willing to give up. I refer you at this time to the article at the bottom (“Would You Like Fries With Your Stem-Cell Burger? Cultued Beef And The Future of Global Meat Consumption”), where stated, “According to the researchers, current meat production methods are inefficient due to the amount of land required for the production of grain for feed.” An unlikely development will have to occur in order for meat to not become a “luxury”.

As technology has sent us into a modern society of a city-life living it looks as though it has hit a celing and for there to be enough food for everyone expected to be on Earth then people will have to change the land back and become farmers (so to say) for themselves and have more people pitch in instead of a select few.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp/story.asp?NewsID=47312&Cr=Food+security&Cr1=#.UzG8n6hdWSo

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sanjeevsardana/2014/03/20/would-you-like-fries-with-your-stem-cell-burger-cultured-beef-and-the-future-of-global-meat-consumption/

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2- Thomas Malthus was convinced that without checks in the populations our food source would pale in comparison to the amount of people in the world. He felt that abstinence was the best way to prevent this from occurring. However, the human capability to reproduce is not likely to out-pace the ability of food to be produced. This is because there have been other preventive measures taken along with abstinence. Although abstinence is probably the best way to prevent exponential population growth, it is unrealistic on a worldwide scale. Therefore, some of the preventive measures that are used to control population growth are birth control and contraceptives. Since these preventive measures are used widely along with abstinence, the population should be able to stay at a sustainable level. Also, even if we look at the issues of over-population with lack of food source from the perspective that production of food was the main problem it is still unlikely that people will out-pace food today.  In the 1790s when Thomas Malthus ideas were at the prime, it could have been deemed that food production could have been seen as the main source problem.  However, in today’s world there have been many advances in agricultural science that makes food production much easier than it was in the 1790’s.

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3- I agree with the Malthusian theory that we are reproducing more than we can produce food and water. We are seeing it now in other countries where they are overpopulated and do not have enough food or resources to support everyone. Even in America I feel that people are over consuming foods and resources causing scarcity and prices to rise on certain items. Not only this but there are health issues concerning over consuming such as obesity caused by unhealthy eating or eating larger portions than what should be eaten.

Back in the time of Thomas Malthus, they didn’t really have a problem with running out of food because their mortality rate was low. They didn’t have the same medicine and technology we did to help them survive, stay alive or prevent certain diseases. But when medicine and technology advanced people started to live longer and death rates decreased. More people meant more food and more resources being used up. Now in modern times, the world is reproducing at a high rate not to mention the fact that people are over consuming i.e. America, eventually the world will run out of food and resources to supply everyone.