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The problem of truth, from the point of view of a historian, arises in clearly different forms compared to those of scientists and probably also of social scholars of other disciplines. History is a narration of past events, but this narration is subject to an arbitrary selection of its parts, its documentation, the facts that make up the event under discussion. History is organized on the basis of documents, testimonies and biographical elements, but also of considerations on the structures of power, on the articulations of society and on the forms of political regimes. As the history of the 1900s amply demonstrates – of which the Shoah and the Nazi destruction of the Jews as well as Soviet communism, the history of Italy and McCarthyism in the United States, as well as the genocides of the 1990s, are touched on in this article – the interpretation of the events involved the greatest difficulty in identifying a recognized and shared truth.

If it is true that geological discontinuities, as well systemic, like climate change, overpopulation, depletion of traditional energy sources, are evidences that today can hardly be questioned, this article intends to address, through the perspective of recorded history and deep history, those particular contributions that, in the complex warp of narratives that emerged on a global level, have proposed interpretations that resort to Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian paradigms. In this perspective of investigation, it is clear the role of the recent global crisis as a historical-economic phenomenon that has triggered countless debates about the overall stability of the system and accelerated the appearance of numerous questions about political-economic scenarios and the related political and social implications to come. ; Se è vero che discontinuità geologiche oltre che sistemiche come il cambiamento climatico, la sovrappopolazione, l'esaurirsi delle tradizionali fonti energetiche, sono evidenze che difficilmente oggi possono essere messe in discussione, il presente articolo intende affrontare, attraverso la prospettiva della recorded history e della deep history, quei particolari contributi che, nel complesso ordito di narrazioni emerse a livello globale, hanno prospettato interpretazioni che ricorrono a paradigmi malthusiani e neomalthusiani. In questa prospettiva di indagine risulta evidente il ruolo della recente crisi globale quale fenomeno storico-economico che ha innescato innumerevoli dibattiti circa la tenuta complessiva del sistema e accelerato la comparsa di numerosi interrogativi circa gli scenari politico-economici e relative implicazioni politiche e sociali a venire.