GEV 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Population Bomb, Human Overpopulation, Thomas Robert Malthus

• School: Villanova University
• Department: Geography and the Environment
• Course: GEV 1050
• Professor: Weston

Document Summary

Demographic trap: impact on environment and human population size. Carrying capacity = human pop size that earth can support: depends on standard of living, resource use, technology, waste generation. Population predictions s n o i l l i l b n o i t a u p o. Over population: not enough resources for people living: fundamental level: food, clean water this is about a distribution of resources hunger, starvation, static economic growth, urban deterioration. High population growth: move along demographic stage- fertility rate as a function of education correlates with socio-economic status (usa) Opportunities not equally distributed: family planning and access to birth control. Incentives and coercion limited number of children (not equal across socio-economic stati: fertility rate would probably be naturally lower anyways because more developed now, had unintented consequences. But it did (cid:449)o(cid:396)k populatio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol (cid:448)e(cid:396)y (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kly gets e(cid:448)e(cid:396)yo(cid:374)e i(cid:374)to trouble.