GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Our Common Future, The Population Bomb, International Political Economy
27 Nov 2013
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Population as an environmental (env) problem, i. e. neo- Your top env problems in developing countries: overpopulation was #2. Sustainable development: our common future poverty as problem. Chain of explanation: local env change/livelihoods global political economy. Idea of population being a problem is not a new idea. Thomas malthus (1793) principle of population: food production grows linearly, population grows exponentially population outstrips food supply (see image below) Said it would be the poor that would die from starvation and the government would need to control social upheaval from this. Limits to growth book published by a research group arguing that resources are finite and population growth is exponential. Blame on overpopulated regions of the developing world. The population bomb another book outlining the threat of population growth. 2: noted that population growth was a problem but didn t say how to address it.
