SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ecological Succession, Starbucks, Gated Community
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And that is exactly the imagery some population analysts, or demographers, want to convey they link it to recurrent famine, brutal ethnic warfare, and other massive and seemingly intractable problems (p. 506-507) Think about movies depicting future despair i. e. mad max, etc. where small groups guard resources and the largest numbers of the populace experience deprivation. These ideas are based on conceptions of finite resources and belief of inherent aggression in the face of shortages. However, they do not take into account the amount of waste in today"s society and prominent global inequities. Furthermore, given the places where human population is most prominently growing, they display a racist subtext linking racialized people to disease, famine, and chaos: specific regions and countries that are over. Malthus a really fun guy populating: concerned with the effects of unchecked population growth. Theorized that natural phenomena would maintain a manageable population size. According to malthus, two forces would do this labor.
