Politicians and policymakers continue to point to population growth as the cause of climate change, housing shortages, or migration flows, even though scholars have demonstrated for decades that these problems arise from political and economic choices. In her doctoral research, BIRMM member Dr Soumaya Majdoub investigates why Malthusian framings, named after the 18-19th-century economist Thomas Malthus, remain so remarkably persistent.
Read the press release here: https://press.vub.ac.be/vub-research-exposes-the-persistence-of-malthus…