Thomas Malthus predicted that food production would not keep pace with population growth.

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Malthusian theory argues that population growth would outstrip the resources needed to sustain it, particularly food production. He predicted that a population would increase exponentially while food production would increase linearly, leading to a point where population growth would overshoot the carrying capacity of the Earth, causing a Malthusian catastrophe.

Thomas Malthus Predicted That Food Production Would Not Keep Pace