GEOG 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intercropping, Bangladesh, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Dates to know for midterm : 1650- 1/2 billion 1820- 1 billion 1930- 2 billion 1975- 1 - more people are living to reproductive age. 2 - people are getting older exponential growth: grows by the same percentage every year has to stop- either stabilize or crash. Population is growing exponentially, food production is growing linearly. Eventually there will not be enough food. Predicted a problem by 1850- untrue because: In the 80s, there would be mass starvation. 3 billion people that live on less than a day. In the 60s and 70s, government centralized family planning programs. 2 - aimed at the husband, who was the main decision maker. 2 - not incentive based, it was access based. Mexicans- california was part of mexico (la has the 2nd highest population of. Wet foot dry foot immigration policy- set foot on american soil, are an american citizens. Allied with ussr, exported machines, pesticides, herbicides, gas to cuba.
