新大陆摆脱了马尔萨斯主义的羁绊。 在当时,马尔萨斯理论即意味着只能通过降低生活水平实现人口的更快增长。
The New World removed Malthusian constraints, which, until then, had meant that higher population growth could be achieved only at the expense of lower living standards.
当下,正值马尔萨斯主义的忧虑卷土重来、人们为地球人口过盛将导致的后果忧心忡忡之时,生育率的下降实在令人瞠目,也多少令人感到些许欣慰。
At a time when Malthusian worries are resurgent and people fear the consequences for an overcrowded planet, the decline in fertility is surprising and somewhat reassuring.
马尔萨斯主义者们会对他们所担心的数字增长找到铁证:人口看起来和以往增长一样快,或者更快。
Malthusians will find killer evidence for their fear in the new Numbers: the population looks as if it is growing as fast as ever, or faster.
本文介绍了现代马尔萨斯主义人口经济理论的最大特点—人口压力。
This passage introduces of population pressure - the greatest feature of modern malthusian theory, of economics of population.
随着数量的灵魂在这个星球上的更高蜱马尔萨斯主义者哀叹痛苦必兴盛。
As the number of souls on the planet ticks ever higher, the Malthusians lament, misery will flourish.
马尔萨斯主义者说得没错,世界人口仍在增长,并将在2050年达到略微多于90亿的顶峰,在那之前,过多的人口将对环境造成跟为严重的破坏。
The Malthusians are right that the world's population is still increasing and can do a lot more environmental damage before it peaks at just over 9 billion in 2050.
马尔萨斯主义者说得没错,世界人口仍在增长,并将在2050年达到略微多于90亿的顶峰,在那之前,过多的人口将对环境造成跟为严重的破坏。
The Malthusians are right that the world's population is still increasing and can do a lot more environmental damage before it peaks at just over 9 billion in 2050.
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