Malthus was wrong in 1798 when he failed to predict the industrial revolution. He is long dead but still wrong since Malthusians fail to take solutions to the envisioned problems into account. Had Malthusians been in charge when the Netherlands was populated they'd have moved all people above sea level to keep their feet dry. Fortunately for the Dutch they ignored the Malthusians and built a system of dikes, channels and pumps to keep the sea at bay and on that small patch of land they built the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world.
That is the model to follow, not a Malthusian 'run to the hills'.
And yet all our technological innovations have incurred a huge amount of technical debt in the form of carbon emissions. The result of that debt is fast approaching and I'm not seeing how we're going to science ourselves out of this one without incurring more debt.
