Malthus

          While a large population gives factories more employees, it causes the food supply to run low, therefore causing positive and preventative checks to be necessary in order to prevent the poor from overpopulating and blaming the government. Large populations are beneficial for factories because there will be many people doing labor and large numbers help make mass production possible. However, the population will eventually outgrow the resources that are needed to sustain it, resulting in a need for positive checks such as natural disasters to keep the poor from over-increasing the population. Also, as Thomas R. Malthus suggests, poor people themselves are the cause of their own poverty, yet are blaming the government for bad living conditions and scarce food. Using positive and preventative checks will benefit the human race in the future by helping balance the amount of food available with the population.

Amy Hsieh Blue block

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Population checks must be implemented in order to sustain a society, which cannot grow larger than its food supply, and issues regarding insufficient amounts of food, and, poverty, are one’s own problem.  As Malthus said, “Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.” (97). Meaning that population (overtime) will outgrow the natural rate that that its food supply grows, leaving a large percent of man living in a state of famine. Malthus believes that one reason for this is that man cannot look around and see poverty increasing around him; and that poverty seeks those with large families more often. This is because man can’t calculate the amount each unnecessary element and possession is worth in and to his life. But if man could, he would be able to get rid of things he doesn’t need to make a better life for his family. “When the wages of labour are hardly sufficient to maintain two a man marries and have 5 or 6. He of course finds himself miserably distressed” (99).  –Jelani Narcisse (Blue Block)

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Malthus thinks that population will forever outgrow the resources needed to sustain life, therefore creates a list of strong, constructive principles society should follow. Malthus believes that population should be checked , and unchecked population increases in a geometrical ration, while subsistence only in an arithmetical ratio. Therefore, food, which is necessary for survival should be kept equally distributed. Also, Malthus considers positive checks of population, death by society to be a natural form of limiting the population. Lastly, Malthus is certain that population and poverty mixed leads to accusations of wages, parishes, rich and un-justs of society because one cannot provide for his family. While a large population gives factories more employees, it causes the food supply to run low, therefore causing positive and preventive checks to be necessary, in order to prevent the poor from overpopulating and blaming the government.  
-Diana Katsikaris

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       While a large population gives factories more employees, it causes the food supply to run low, therefore causing positive checks to be necessary, in order to prevent the poor from over population and blaming the government. Malthus states that positive checks are needed to make sure there is enough food for the people. Malthus says there are "two powers of population and productions in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal..." he believes people should limit the amount of children they have so there "is power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". People should limit the amount of children that have so there is at least enough food for everyone to survive. There were issues with the poor over populating and complaining about lack of food. Malthus states if they were to listen and to have less children then they would have more food because there would be less mouths to feed. In addition to this, Malthus also relied on the positive checks, natural disasters are one example of a positive check. He believed that natural checks were natures way of making sure the population did not exceed the food production. Overall, Malthus believed people needed to control the population and that positive check also maintained the population so that the population did not exceed the food production.
    -Sarah Hollingsworth 

Population control is necessary through natural and man-controlled checks in order to stabilize food supply because the poor reproduces more than they can manage. Natural checks include poverty, epidemics, and warfare. These all work towards keeping the population down, which would allow everyone a stable amount of food. Preventative checks include man's superior mindset which does not allow man, specifically the poor, to realize that his financial state cannot support many children. However, the poor continually breeds. Food grows at a slower rate than population, and this supply is bound to run out if the poor continues to breed. Additionally, the poor blames society and government when it is themselves they should blame for not maintaining the balance between food supply and population.

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Charlie Bolton

In order for society to survive, the poor must execute preventative population checks, so that the food supply can be sustained. Preventative checks must be executed because the population is growing at a faster rate than the food supply, causing for there to be a shortage of food.  The reason why the poor must execute these check is because they are breeding to fast, and having offspring, which they cannot provide for, causing for them to complain to the government about not being able to help them. It is actually their fault that they cannot provide for their families, because they can barley provide for themselves and their wives with one child, but they go ahead and have more offspring. So in order for the population to grow in better alignment with the food growth, the poor must execute preventative checks on their population growth, because it is their fault for this uneven growth of food and population.

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While a large population gives factories more employees, it causes the food supply to run low, therefore causing positive checks to be necessary in order to prevent the poor from overpopulating and blaming the government.  In order for society to thrive, the population must be higher than the amount of food.  However, population increases at an exponential rate, and food increases at a fixed rate.  This means that eventually population will surpass food, and people will starve.  To slow population growth, there are two kinds of checks.  There are positive checks, which are natural disasters, and preventative checks, which rely on human judgement.  When the poor blame the government and the aristocracy for their poverty, they do not realize that the true cause of their poverty is their fault.  When a family’s income would only be able to support one or two children, the go ahead and have seven children. They then blame others for their own mistakes.

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Man has the power to control the population and food through preventative checks balancing the birth rate brought on by the poor blaming the rich, therefore not taking responsibility for their poverty, which causes an inequality between the number of people and the food. I think that Malthus’s big point is that people need to control the amount of kids that they are having because it obviously affects the population number. Therefore, if the population becomes too much for the food supply to handle everyone doesn’t get the food that they need. He begins to speak of ways to control this ever-rising population by using preventative check being natural or government decisions. He almost promotes the natural disasters to lower the population but leans more towards the idea of having people control the amount of children they give birth to. But then the problem arises as to the poor complaining that they are not receiving enough food to keep their families alive. Malthus comes back with the argument that if they had listened and kept the amount of kids they had down then they wouldn’t have a problem at all. His big goal is to balance out the population with the food to satisfy everyone and keep the problems to a minimum. 

-Peter Hereu

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            Population Control is necessary by natural and man controlled checks in order to stabilize food supply because the poor produces more than they can manage. When Malthus lists his concerns on overpopulation, he specifically connects population to poverty. The poor people of the world blame the rich for taking more than they can handle, when really it’s the poor who are taking more than the needed amount. The poor overproduce children and therefore they don’t have enough food for their family. This is because their wages are very low. The solution to prevent these food shortages is through population control.  Food grows slower than people, therefore it is the population that needs to be watched, not the food. The poor also need to take the responsibility and the consequences of their poor decisions (poor decisions being having too many kids).  The poor needs to use preventative checks to limit the population and stabilize food supply.

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                                                Steven Sampson

In order for a society to survive, the poor must execute preventative population checks so that the food supply will be sustained. These preventative population checks are ways that man control the population to a point at which food supply is sufficient enough for a society to be able to function properly. These preventative population checks consist of abstinence or limiting the amount of children per family. This method of controlling the population is necessary because food supply is a linear growth while population growth is exponential, therefore the population must be controlled enough so that there is enough food. Also, another reason that Malthus argues that checks are necessary is because without them the poor will continue to grow in size due to their low incomes and high costs to support a large family. With these checks on the poor, Malthus believes this will solve the problem of ever having an insufficient amount of food or resources to support the society.