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Alex787 [66]
3 years ago
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College student Jerry says disease, natural disasters, and even war serve a greater purpose. His friends say his views are offen

sive, and Jerry replies, "But I’m a Malthusian!" Along with Thomas Malthus, Jerry believes that the benefit of problems that wipe out large number of humans is that:_________.
Social Studies
1 answer:
jarptica [38.1K]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:the decreased pressure on the food supply reduces starvation and misery or the decrease demand on limited resources reduces starvation and poverty.

Explanation:

The natural decrease of population that occurs when there are natural disasters according to Malthus is a great advantage in reducing a demand that an ever increasing population puts on limited resources.

Malthus calls this a positive check because he believes we need some sort of intervention if we don't want to face a situation whereby we will end up outstripping the available resources or face a situation where the available resources can't meet our needs or can't cover the available number of population.

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