GEOG 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carrying Capacity, Overconsumption, Rationality
13 Dec 2015
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Extreme case: population will reach 15. 8 billion by the 2100. Criticism: analysis based on fact that fertility will not fall below replacement level of 2. 1, even though this happens in other populations. Unit 6 social sciences approaches: population & common property. Population is just a sidekick to the real big baddie - consumption. Average number of children each woman bears dropped from 6 to 2. 5. Un says global population will reach 10 billion by 2100, and continue to grow. Corruption: people who consume the most blame population as the biggest threat to the planet. Widening gap between perpetual economic growth and runaway population living on rapidly diminishing resources. Everybody denying that runaway population is our greatest problem. Worst-case scenario: no solution; nobody working on real solution; wars, poverty, disease will wipe out billions; we are on track to another mass extinction event. Problem creators like population growth because more customers leads to economic growth.
