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9. Wrong.

"The most significant population control system is China's one-child policy, in which, with various exceptions, having more than one child is discouraged. Unauthorized births are punished by fines, although there have also been allegations of illegal forced abortions and forced sterilization.

The Chinese government introduced the policy in 1978 to alleviate the social and environmental problems of China. According to government officials, the policy has helped prevent 400 million births."

Your Malthusian idea of starving people to limit population, in practice, has the opposite effect:

"It is generally accepted that overpopulation is aggravated by poverty and gender inequality with consequent unavailability, and lack of knowledge, of contraception."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_control

Malthus had some very influential ideas, which many seem to consider common sense. Problem is, they were essays based on his own hypotheses with zero data and they were, well, wrong.