GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thomas Robert Malthus, Malthusianism, Corn Laws
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There will be three questions, choose 2 questions to answer (essay based) Don"t memorize statistics, but memorize the theory (thematic argument) Is the world overpopulated? o o o o o. Arguable, as a lot of influencing factors to hunger and other issues could be about the wealth gap, pollution, environmental problems (e. g. the stress imposed on the environment by the population) Deep ecologists: they believed the world was overpopulated and that it was due to technological innovations (industrial revolution), whereas deeper ecologists believed it was also about the agricultural revolution. Malthusians: they also believed the world was overpopulated (robert thomas. Malthus neo malthusians were a group of people that didn"t put the blame on overpopulation but on other implicating factors) due to high birth rates. Liberal optimists and marxists: they believed the world isn"t overpopulated, as they think industrialization and urbanization provides new resources.
