Answer: For many people, the population growth that occurred after the Industrial Revolution was a promising achievement for humanity: it was a conquest of man who, by adapting better to life on the planet, could live more and more. For others, population growth was a matter of concern and should be tackled as it heralded major future problems.
During a long phase of history, birth and mortality remained high and close, characterizing slow growth. Wars, epidemics and famine decimated entire communities. From the Industrial Revolution began the first phase of the three that characterize the demographic transition model
