SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Demographic Transition, Thomas Robert Malthus
17 Apr 2018
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Thomas malthus posited that an unchecked growing population would eventually outstrip the natural resources to sustain humanity. Julian simon (1996) reducing the population was not the answer but having better equipped and better educated people and a commitment to using technology would solve these problems for the good of humanity. History of the world"s populatio(cid:374) u(cid:374)folded i(cid:374) two general stages. Period of slow growth from the time when the first humans appeared to around the mid 18th century. A brief period of explosive growth after 1750. Between the year 1 ad and 1750, population size doubled only once from. I(cid:374) the last 250 years, world"s populatio(cid:374) has doubled three ti(cid:373)es surpassing 6 billion before 2000. World growth rate is 1. 3% per year and is expected to decline to 0. 5% by 2050. Developing countries accounted for approximately 97% of the world populations growth from 2010 to 2012, owing to high birth rates and young populations.
