Thomas Robert Malthus's prediction was ______, causing resource ______.
A) new technologies would enable people to grow food more efficiently; oversupply
B) populations would grow much more rapidly than the food supply; scarcity
C) wars and climate change would eventually cause countries to reach zero population growth; sufficiency
D) productivity in agriculture would decline, but so would the population; stability

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Malthus predicted that populations would increase geometrically, while food production would only increase arithmetically, leading to inevitable resource scarcity.

Thomas Robert Malthus's Prediction Was ______, Causing Resource ______

Thomas Robert Malthus's Prediction Was , Causing Resource