GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution
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Green revolution: increase of food + able to feed everyone industrial revolution, increase the amount of e that we consume + inventions. Sanitary + medical revolutions: drop of death rates. Most inventions were made in the 19th century. But in the 20th is when we started to apply it. This caused urbanization and so the increase of population. The world population is not suppose to double again. We will be level out @ 2100 and then drop: drop may be due to. Having less children low death rate + more secure = ppl have less children. By the time of the completion of urbanization there will be slow start to the decline of population. *look @ the graphs from the readings in chapter 7* The fastest growing places are closest to the equator. Places with low carbon emission have the highest population growth. Cities are a very important piece of globalization.
