11:375:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Baby Boomers, Demographic Transition, Infant Mortality
5 Dec 2017
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Human population is continuing to grow rapidly. Population growth has large negative impacts on natural capital. There is a time delay for the factor to respond to its environment. 2-5 million years ago, there were high death rates. During the agricultural revolution, we had technology to help us store food. During the industrial revolution, we had even more technology to assist us. All of this caused large population growth. Rate of population growth has slowed in recent decades across the globe. Human population growth is unevenly distributed geographically. People are moving from rural to urban areas. Due to more access of resources in urban areas. World events can change the resource availability, immigration, war, etc. Population in less-developed countries is increasing at a faster rate. As the human population grows, so does the global total human ecological footprint. The us has a higher ecological footprint than europe.
