HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Nations Millennium Declaration, Millennium Summit, Political Economy
18 Apr 2016
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Three factors: fertility, infant mortality, longevity. Animal domestication and agriculture: provided for a few to feed many. Industrial revolution: growth of cities and infrastructure. Transportation: increased productivity, nutrition, sanitation, medicine. World by lights picture does not related because there"s a bias, Neo-malthusians: those who are concerned that population growth will increase environmental degradation to a degree that is not sustainable with the potential of ecological collapse, huxley"s novel brave new world. Freshwater as limiting factory upper limits on world population: upper limit on world population, assumes 20% use of available water and 10% loss of food between growth and consumption, resource limits water. In 1950 people used half of accessible water. Climate change as limiting factor carbon dioxide scenarios: population and green house gas emissions, population and climate change, i = pat. Haida proverb: we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children . Future trend: population projections (high, medium and low to 2300).
