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LONDON (Reuters): Few economists have been as spectacularly wrong as Thomas Malthus, who predicted in 1798 that unchecked population growth would doom the Earth to starvation.
As the number of people on the planet reaches seven billion, his modern-day peers are cautiously confident that the English clergyman will remain synonymous with unwarranted doom and gloom.
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