INTST101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: One-Child Policy, Environment And Climate Change Canada, Carrying Capacity
18 Dec 2015
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1 billion 10 000 bc -1825 ad: 6 billion more last 200 years. Fewer people dying off, reduction in mortality rate. Decrease in birth rate in global south as they become more wealthy: as y . Note: concentration/density (same except europe & africa switched) Many young people: good: future growth, work-force, energy, bad: ton of infrastructure, suburbs, housing, roads, food grown & transported, jobs. Most of global south are like this: need lots of economic growth, many turn to agriculture but it"s not economically efficient. Bad: don"t work anymore, need lots of healthcare: (50% of ontario"s budget taken by healthcare, not enough future tax-payers. Global south (doesn"t affect it b/c of its rapid growth: brain drain : smartest people always leave and usually never come back, e. g. more ethiopian-born doctors in chicago than in all of ethiopia. France banned all young girls from wearing hijabs. Fl, tx, ca, az ( spanish speaking)
