Thomas Robert Malthus, a political economist, once claimed that “Famine is the last and most dreadful mode by which nature represses a redundant population.” He referred to famine as a “positive check,” a natural way of dealing with overpopulation.
His statements were not merely theoretical; they were designed to make famine appear as a natural disaster—one that was beyond the control of any colonial government. However, a troubling question lingers in the wake of such statements: who decides which population is deemed redundant or expendable, deserving to be neglected and left to die? The answer, though complex, is both simple and harsh: those who hold political power and capital are the ones who decide who lives and who does not.
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