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Malthus argued that the number of people in the world will increase faster than the supply of food to feed them. With the only way to prevent this is to act to lower the birth rate, or to wait for famine, war and disease to intervene.
From governing bodies being told to not spend money on famine relief to Malthus’ ideas being taken up by Indians themselves, Tristram Hunt asks whether the malign uses to which Malthus has been put mean that his basic idea can be safely ignored? Or is the ongoing growth of the world’s population a serious issue that urgently needs our attention, for the good of everyone?
With Professor David Arnold, Dr Minoti Chakravatry-Kaul, Dr David Hall-Matthews, Dr Chandrika Kaul, Professor A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Associate Professor S. Anandhi, Professor Mohan Rao, and Sir Jonathon Porritt.