ANTH 1002 Lecture 3: Anth 3
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The security demographic: population and civil con ict after the. Countries with a high rate of urban population growth were about twice as likely as other states to experience an outbreak of civil con ict (25) In countries where agriculture is no longer promising, young adults typically migrate to urban centerswhere political protest is more easily organized (25) Low per capita supplies of either freshwater or cropland [are] added risks to states under stress (25) Scarcities of critical natural resources undermine the ability of agricultural economies to absorb labor, promoting landless poverty (25) Refugees and other cross-border migrants often evoke fears and provoke anti-immigration tensions in host countries (26) The arctic enters an extremely dynamic geopolitical and environmental period of rapid change (adm. david titley) Plenty of other countries are preparing for increasing activity in the arctic and the antarcticrussia, which already has the world"s" biggest icebreaking eet, is building a dozen more ships, including several nuclear-powered icebreakers.
