Thomas Robert Malthus claimed that
A)the world could sustain an ever-larger population.
B)population increase would eventually bring chaos to the world.
C)industrialization would reduce the birth rate.
D)population decrease threatened the world in the future.

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Malthus argued in his "Essay on the Principle of Population" that population growth would eventually outstrip food production and lead to famine, disease, and social disorder. He believed that the only way to control population growth was through "positive checks" like war, famine, and disease, or "preventive checks" like moral restraint and delayed marriage. Therefore, option B, "population increase would eventually bring chaos to the world," is the correct answer.

Thomas Robert Malthus Claimed That