Thomas Malthus concluded that
A) population increased arithmetically while food production increased linguistically.
B) the world's rate of population increase was higher than the development of food supplies.
C) so-called "moral restraint" was producing lower crude birth rates.
D) population growth was outpacing available resources in every country, according to algebraic calculations.
E) crude birth rates must balance crude death rates.

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Malthus believed that population growth would outstrip increases in food production, leading to famine and other catastrophes. He argued that population increased at a geometric rate (exponential) while food production increased at an arithmetic rate (linear), meaning that population growth would eventually outpace the development of food supplies. This idea became known as the Malthusian theory of population growth.

Thomas Malthus Concluded That