Calculations are difficult, fertility theories abound, and the population growth rate has fallen by more than 40%. Well dressed: the new Bottletop storeFacebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The space, with its 3,000 hanging cans, is a showstopper’: Bottletop on Regent Street. Malthus suggested that our global population would outpace food supplies until war, disease and famine arrived to halt the party. Visit Bottletop at 84 Regent Street, London W1B 5AJ (07519 406492). Some experts suggest we’re at “peak farmland”, – meaning the predictions of cleric Thomas Malthus, who published his population theory in 1798, are coming to fruition.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2016 05:00 UTC