For 10 points, name this British thinker, who has become synonymous with the idea of exponential, unsustainable, and catastrophic population growth.
This man's namesake trap stated that increases in technology did not lead to increases in living standards until the Industrial Revolution. In response to this man, Thomas Carlisle labelled economics "the dismal science". His laid out his ideas, which inspired the works of Charles Darwin and the writing of the Poor Laws, in his work Essay on the Principle of Population. For 10 points, name this British thinker, who has become synonymous with the idea of exponential, unsustainable, and catastrophic population growth.
This man's namesake trap stated that increases in technology did not lead to increases in living standards until the Industrial Revolution.
Thomas {Malthus}