SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lyndon B. Johnson, Family Planning In Iran, Unintended Consequences
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Birth rate stays the same: people are having a lot of kids. Kids dying at early age, so they continue to have kids: agricultural purposes. Help around the farm at a young age: they can get a lot of work done, kids don"t produce economic wealth. Death rate falls quickly: lack of food, cleanliness, medicine. Post wwii in the south : peaks in 1970s, lead to predictions of 16 billion or more. Unsustainable growth: worry about, youth, arab spring. Population growth starts to decline in late 1970s: fertility rate drops from 6 to 4 in two decades. 1960s moral panic: limits to growth, population bomb. Size x affluence x technology: size effect of sheer numbers, affluence use more, technology environmentally friendly. China"s one child policy: highly coercive. Iran: from 7 to 2 kids per woman (fastest ever, war with iraq foster births, ayatollah ruhollah khomeni (1980s) Lyndon johnson: there are three billion people in the world.
