The Malthusian Model That Predicts Mankind Will Remain in Poverty

question 60

Multiple Choice

The Malthusian model that predicts mankind will remain in poverty forever:

• A) underestimated the possibility for technological progress.
• B) failed to predict that scarcity would be eliminated in the modern world.
• C) assumed that prosperity would lead to declining human fertility.
• D) recognized that the ability of natural resources to sustain humans is far greater than the power of population to consume resources.

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