The Zero Population Growth Movement and Malthusianism versus Cornucopianism.

Zero population growth is the concept in which the overall birth rates of the world
equal the overall death rates and thus provide no growth in the size of the population.
The Zero Population Growth movement, henceforth referred to as the ZPG, is targeted
primarily to certain core countries, on the basis of their environmental impact, and
certain periphery countries, toward their female population. It is suggested that through
governmental programs, based on environmental standards, core countries lower their
birth rates to the level in which ZPG can be attained. In periphery countries, to decrease
the birth rate would require massive education for women as well as complete equality to
achieve ZPG. The ZPG movement encompasses a view first formulated by Thomas
Malthus, a famous, and perhaps infamous, English economist and demographer.
Malthus developed a theory around 1798 which described the world’s resources,
namely food, as increasing arithmetically while the w...