GEOG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Global Hectare, Infant Mortality, Intensive Farming
26 Apr 2016
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Answer the following as you view the film: give some examples of how quickly the world"s population is growing. Human population density: not only the natural environment is threatened by population growth but it also threatens . 9 billion: the majority of this growth is not caused by people having large families. Poor infrastructure, politics, poverty, living in an arid part of the world. Shirt = 3000l: how will be double the amount of food we currently produce. Exploit large parts of land from the poorest countries. Intensive farming methods: what region of the world is particularly popular with countries looking for agricultural land. In the oceans, we have depleted fish stocks massively. Calculation of how large a population an environment can support. Divide total productivity of the earth by the number of people. Assimilate our wastes: our current way of life requires ________ earths to support it.
