Malthus would be shocked that they world population was 7.4 billion today, although in his time they probably had little idea what the exact population of the world was. I understand that his intentions were benign.
Perhaps I should have called it two stage distribution of wealth. First within this country and secondly between nations of the world. You correctly point out that the US and Western Europe are a small percent of the world. China has slowed but is enormous and India is going to pass China in population. I'm not going to recover that ground, in fact Malthus did it long ago. If we did the second stage it would undo for our poor the good from the first step.
Most of us lock our doors at night. Countries lock their borders. And yes there will be friction between the have and "have not" countries. 360 million can't take care of 7.4 billion going to 10 billion. I don't believe so even if we lived like monks.
The term "double socialism" may have lost you, but you know what I am saying. Many people believe, as do I in evolution, but it never dawns on them that it never stops. Homo sapiens sapiens might not always be at the top of the ladder.
We've cheated a lot with things like fertilizer and irrigation, but both are environmentally limited in the long run.
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