Malthusian catastrophe

Target entity: Malthusian catastrophe
Context triple: [Thomas Malthus, notableIdea, Malthusian catastrophe]

• A. Thomas Malthus
  Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
• B. Holodomor
  The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
• C. Dust Bowl
  The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
• D. Green Revolution
  The Green Revolution was a mid-20th-century agricultural transformation that dramatically increased global crop yields through high-yield varieties, synthetic fertilizers, and modern farming techniques, significantly reducing hunger in many developing countries.
• E. Social Darwinism
  Social Darwinism is a 19th-century social theory that applied Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection to human societies, often to justify economic inequality, competition, and laissez-faire capitalism.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Malthusian catastrophe
Target entity description: A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.

• A. Thomas Malthus
  Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
• B. Holodomor
  The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
• C. Dust Bowl
  The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
• D. Green Revolution
  The Green Revolution was a mid-20th-century agricultural transformation that dramatically increased global crop yields through high-yield varieties, synthetic fertilizers, and modern farming techniques, significantly reducing hunger in many developing countries.
• E. Social Darwinism
  Social Darwinism is a 19th-century social theory that applied Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection to human societies, often to justify economic inequality, competition, and laissez-faire capitalism.
• F. None of above. chosen