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While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world's population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year. In many countries, supplies of food and water are inadequate to support the population, so the world falls deeper and deeper into what economists call the "Malthusian trap". Here, Malthus examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources, and argues that poverty, disease, and starvation are necessary to keep societies from moving beyond their means of subsistence.

​​Welcome to Population Next, the podcast that helps business leaders and policymakers navigate the biggest—and most overlooked—threat to their future: demographic change. Hosted by Bradley Schurman, author of The Super Age and a leading expert in population dynamics, this show is your guide to turning challenges into opportunities. Each episode explores how shifting population patterns—declining birth rates, aging societies, and accelerated global migration—are transforming the way we work, live, and do business. With expert insights, real-world case studies, and forward-thinking ...

General Population with Marco Lesher is an in depth exploration of community, culture, fortune, failure and every shade in between. All worlds, all times.....almost n’ beyond.

Unspun, is a podcast by Population. Three sustainability experts, Lauren Hill, Danielle Arzaga and Catherine Tedrow unravel what’s holding us back from regeneration and liberation in the fashion and home industries. The world was already at a tipping point when the pandemic hit. Fashion brands cancelled orders, leaving garment workers unpaid. Not long after, the same workers put their lives at risk to make PPE. In the midst of all this, a racial reckoning swept the U.S. triggering the greatest wave of wokewashing the country had ever seen.It may not seem like it, but these problems are all ...

With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in the face of ballooning populations, British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus secured a leading role in modern political and economic thought. In this startling new interpretation, Deborah Valenze reveals how canonical readings of Malthus fail to acknowledge his narrow understanding of what constitutes food production.