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Biographical note: Robert J. Mayhew, University of Bristol, UK.
Thomas Robert Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population was an immediate succès de scandale when it appeared in 1798. Arguing that nature is niggardly and that societies, both human and animal, tend to overstep the limits of natural resources in “perpetual oscillation between happiness and misery,” he found himself attacked on all sides. Robert Mayhew gives historical depth to our current planetary concerns.