Increases Quote by Thomas Malthus Download Open image “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.” — Thomas Malthus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Increases Population Ratio
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in numbers except… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
As you improve health in a society, population growth goes down. You know, I thought it was... before I learned about it, I thought… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“the rate of population growth observed from 1700 to 2012—0.8 percent per year—were to continue for the next three centuries, the world’s population would… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings. — Diane Garnick Copy Share Image
Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g.… — Lars Feld Copy Share Image
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“34. Sexual contact between a boy and a girl is a progressive thing. In other words, the amount of touching and caressing and kissing… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image