Examples of Malthusian catastrophe in the following topics:
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- Advocates of Malthusian theory point to epidemics that diminished urban populations after early periods of urbanization as evidence that Mathus' predictions were correct.
- Malthusians would cite this as a natural check on populations that were outpacing natural resource availability.
- According to Malthus, the only alternative to moral restraint was certain disaster: if allowed to grow unchecked, population would outstrip available resources, resulting in what came to be known as Malthusian catastrophes: naturally occurring checks on population growth such as famine, disease, or war.
- Proponents of this theory, Neo-Malthusians, state that these famines were examples of Malthusian catastrophes.
- Malthusians would cite epidemics and starvation in overpopulated urban slums, like this one in Cairo, as natural checks on growing populations that have exceeded the carrying capacities of their local environments.
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- At the same time, death rates can also increase unexpectedly due to disease, wars, and other mass catastrophes.
- According to some scenarios, disasters triggered by the growing population's demand for scarce resources will eventually lead to a sudden population crash, or even a Malthusian catastrophe, where overpopulation would compromise global food security and lead to mass starvation .
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- Proponents of this theory, Neo-Malthusians state that these famines were examples of Malthusian catastrophes.
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- Malthusian Trap: Named after a political economist named Thomas Robert Malthus, the Malthusian trap simply states that increases in efficiency tend to result in population growth rather than wealth growth.
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- His arguments are widely known as Malthusianism, and present-day proponents of this theory are called Neo-Malthusians.
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- For example, a simple model of population growth is the Malthusian growth model.
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- "Those communities," he wrote, "which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring. " The term, which originated from the narrow Malthusian conception of competition between each and all, thus lost its narrowness in the mind of one who knew Nature.
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- His dire predictions are widely known as "Malthusianism. "
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- Cognitive theories explain the disorder as arising from negative, distorted, and catastrophic thoughts and reinforcement of these thoughts.
- A recent review of cognitive–affective neuroscience research suggests that catastrophization in patients with these disorders tends to correlate with a greater vulnerability to pain.
- CBT aims to help patients realize that their symptoms are not catastrophic and to help them gradually return to activities they previously engaged in without fear of “worsening their symptoms.”
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- If an individual's spleen is enlarged, as is frequent in mononucleosis, most physicians will not allow activities (such as contact sports) where injury to the abdomen could be catastrophic.