Teeming, environmentally degraded, ravaged by poverty, hunger, HIV/AIDS and civil war, Africa appears the most plausible candidate ever to suffer a Malthusian disaster.

• 物产丰富，环境退化，被贫困、饥饿，艾滋和内战蹂躏，非洲似乎是最有可能遭受马尔萨斯灾难的对象。