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According to Malthus, human beings are condemned to poverty. Why? |
Population grows in arithmetic progression and agricultural production grows in geometric progression. Population suffers from positive checks, like famine. Population suffers from preventive checks, like late marriage. Population grows in geometric progression and overcomes agricultural production, which grows in arithmetic progression. |
Population grows in geometric progression and overcomes agricultural production, which grows in arithmetic progression. |
The correct answer is Option (4) → Population grows in geometric progression and overcomes agricultural production, which grows in arithmetic progression. According to Thomas Malthus:
Thus, population outpaces food production, leading to poverty, famine, and misery. |
