EESA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Demographic Transition, Total Fertility Rate
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The human population is growing nearly as fast as ever y thus, even in the growth rate remains steady, population size will increase by greater increments with each successive generation. Malthus (b) argued that the pressure of population growth on the availability of resources could lead to disaster. y more recently, biologist paul ehrlich of stanford university has been called a. Is population growth really a problem today? y thus, the population problem actually arises from a very good thing our y ability to keep more people alive longer. We find potential stuff and human intelligence turns it into resources. In today s world, population is much more strongly correlated with poverty than with wealth. In other active conflicts we can see that global population growth and resulting environmental scarcity have played a central role in causing famine, disease, and social and political conflict around the world.
