1. Thomas Malthus did not consider contraception a viable “preventive” way to reduce fertility and thus control population. (His religious beliefs precluded this, and he wrote before many modern methods of contraception had been invented.) Discuss the importance of this omission.
2. Frederick Engels said that it is a “fact” that “children are like trees, returning abundantly the expenditure laid out on them.” Do you think this is the case in modern, industrialized countries? Explain your answer.
3. John H. Fremlin saw the advance of science resulting in improved food production. Do you believe there are inevitable limits to increasing food production? If so, what are they"