SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Demographic Transition, Unbridled, Population Momentum
20 Aug 2020
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No population momentum because of societal age structure. Because of the age structure (lots of young people at risk for having children) Kenya"s population will grow, even if they get to replacement level fertility for about 70 years. Growth is very slow in both the us and germany indeed, european countries native populations are declining. Population pyramids can also graphically illustrate other things impacts of wars, the need for schools at certain times, population baby booms, etc. Typically, editorial writers, journalists and news commentators assume the former ( malthusian view ) Wrote famous essay on population in 1798. Was a conservative tradition values have a propensity. Assumption: people are morally lax and have a propensity to breed. Therefore, human population can grow geometrically: 2,4,8,16,32. But food and other resource tend to only grow arithmetically as more land it brought under cultivation, etc. The prediction is that unbridled population growth will lead to disaster.
