Geometric Growth, Arithmetic Fears: The Fallacy of Population Panic

In 1798 Thomas Malthus predicted that the relative prosperity the human race was enjoying at the time would end in sorrow. He predicted that food production would increase arithmetically while the population would increase geometrically leading to shortages of food. It seems he has been wrong for 225 years now. Just in my 76 year lifetime, the yield of dryland corn has increased from about 30 bushels per acre to a nationwide average of 177 bushels per acre. 200-300 bushel yields under good growing conditions is common. So corn production has increased nearly 6-fold. Meanwhile the population is up by only about 2.5 times. Looks like Malthus got it backwards. Population has risen arithmetically while food production has increased geometrically.