ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Population Projection, Demographic Transition
2 Feb 2018
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If each person on earth stood up, pronounced their name, and sat down: it would take >600 years to complete roll call, by 2025 it will take 1,000 years to complete this exercise. Demographic transition: historically, human birth rates and death rates were fairly similar (i. e. quite high compared with today) Improvements in hygiene, sanitation and health care cause death rates to drop: birth rates eventually drop as well, but only after a lag period, during this lag period, population numbers grow rapidly. Canada population projection: canada is entering a period of zero natural population increase. Aboriginal canadians: defined in census as indians, metis or inuit, population growth rates, metis: 0. 9, all-canadian average: 1 , inuit: 1. 3-1. 5, indians: 1. 2-1. 9% Paul ehrlich (the i = pat guy: wrote the population bomb (1968) Karl marx (1818 1883: born in germany, did most of his research and writing in france, england. In north america, known for being the author of the communist manifesto.
