GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Millennium Summit, Extreme Poverty, Child Mortality
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Cultural carrying capacity: the number of people an area can support given the prevailing technology. Technological prowess will find our way out of problems (such as fracking) Technology allows development of substitutes for resources that become relatively scarce. Less resources are needed each year to produce goods and services due to increasing knowledge and newer technologies. Effects of competition between manufacturers and suppliers to provide goods and services demanded by companies and individuals. Overpopulation: the rich get richer; global wealth period = most of the world (68. 4%) is poor. Millennium development goals: international development goals that were established following the millennium summit of the united. Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the united nations. Committing nations to new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty with time- bound targets (deadline 2015) Significant progress in achieving many goals: (b/w 1990- 2002): Child mortality rates fell from 103 deaths to 88. Life expectancy from 63 years to 65.
