GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Integrated Geography, Social Relation, Genetically Modified Organism
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Midterm : part 1= short a; part 2: long answer questions. Q from part 1: discuss the relationship b/w labour and production of nature, define the asymmetrical approach to environmental geography. Bc population is growing faster than food than the check will happen decline in population. Carrying capacity is it based on assumptions: assumptions everyone will take up the same space. We are only sitting on the chairs and not the tables and the floor. A catastrophe might happen if we go over the carry capacity. That there may not be enough air for everyone. Everyone is the same size: but there are solutions debunk the assumptions. We can get more air through pumps. We can put in more chairs or we can sit on tables. In relation to malthus: we can now produce way more food than malthus could ever think of green roofs, malthus was wrong, truth is that there is enough food we just throw it away.
